"There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Contentment is what leads to prosperous travels.  There is no better moment to enjoy life than right now.

Traveling just puts you in a different place.  If the only goal is to see what is next, we will be blind to the beauty we are sitting within right now.  Mountains are just a pile of rocks if you don't enjoy the process of climbing them.

To forget this when taking a motorcycle trip would be sad.
To forget this on life's trip toward death would be detrimental to all that we are designed to be.