and in other news...

[winterbadger]

Chris, Mel, and I had a lovely weekend in Shenandoah National Park. C&M were training for their trip to Switzerland, so we did an nine-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail Saturday, including about 2,000 feet of elevation change. We saw deer, chimpunks, various birds, and a black bear! Plus several through-hikers and a lot of day-hikers. We were very weary when we finally arrived Saturday night, so we took it easy Sunday (instead of hiking back the way we had come, as had been our original plan). Da Grrlz did some photgraphy and sketching, and I did another short hike (two miles, about 700 feet up and down) so as to see the view from Hawksbill, a mountain we had hiked around the side of the day before. I'll post pictures later.

I have such lovely friends! I am really very fortunate to have such good pals, and I will miss them sorely when we go our separate ways!

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[silme.livejournal.com]

Now, Shenandoah is a place I want to take Ian to one of these days... So many places, so little time and/or money... *sigh*

[winterbadger]

Yeah, Mel was looking through the US road atlas and looking at all the places she wants to go with C., and most of them sounded like fun! The National Park Service has 380+ properties alone, and there are so many other state parks, places that aren't parks that would be cool to go to, and places all over the world outside teh US that I want to see.

I can understand why the temptation to become vagabonds and travel EVERYWHERE is so strong for them. I couldn't live that rootlessly myself, but I can understand why it would be so appealing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

ooh that sounds like fun!!!
Glad you had a good time
aww *HUGS*

[noting-nothing.livejournal.com]

That sounds brilliant :)