The Wilderness!

For the most part, I like living in the city. I have the choice to walk to grab a gallon of milk, or sweetner for my coffee--or to buy a coffee if I don't want to make a cup, and chances are fair that one of the 7 households within 200 feet of me has an unsecured wireless internet connection.

Of course there are several drawbacks. One in particular is that at least one of your neighbors is going to get up on a Sunday morning, a morning after the July 4th holiday, and mow the little bit of lawn that he has.

Yesterday, I celebrated my freedom by going into the wilderness. I didn't think of it a good idea at first considering I haven't eaten much in the past few days, but this hike was necessary to help overcome my loss of appetite. I tired quickly so I only put in about 4 miles, but with a little bit more off-the-trail-steep-hill-climbing than usual. I spent a great deal of time looking for this one particular geocache but I couldn't find it. Overall though I found 6 yesterday, and I now have found the greater majority of them in Hunters Creek Park. I'd like to be able to post my tracks on my blog. I may have to take some time to figure out the best way to do this.

The top picture is of the pipeline that runs through the park. I like walking the pipeline. I like being out in the sun, but if it becomes too sunny, I can always duck back into the wilderness.

It is usually holidays where I think back over the past few years and try to remember what I did, and where I was. Holidays make good bookmarks for my life, though I often misplace them, and rearrange them. I don't recall if it was last year I went to Connecticut for the 4th or if it was the year before, and it really doesn't matter. Whats important is that I remember the good times. Visiting old Navy buddies is always a good time. Mostly because we talk about the older good times... and the bad, which can be good anyway because its a relief to think that those bad times are behind us, and that we made it through them.

I do remember several years back, in the Navy days, going to sea on July 3rd. That same year we deployed three days or so before Thanksgiving. That would be the only year, so far, that I didn't have turkey dinner. Because of the watch rotation, it benefited me more to nap than to stay up for dinner.

Was this a holiday worth remembering? Although it was nice having dinner with family, which I do often anyway, probably not so much... but I know that I will have more that are.