Tuesday, May 19, 2009




In order to find one's self you must be willing to try new experiences, even if they don't seem appealing at the time.

A couple weeks ago the weather threaten to turn nice after it had rained most of the night, so we headed for the Naftel Trail. But as we travelled north it was becoming apparent that the weather in this region had not improved much from the evening before. It was quite foggy and drizzled off and on. Normally I would have been willing to call it a cold miserable day and head for dryer ground, but not this day, something inside of me kept pushing to forge ahead with the hike.

Early into the hike we were soaked from the intermittent light and heavy rain, and it was cold. The odd part was I was having a great time. Odd because I have always dreaded getting caught in the rain, and especially hate rain and cold mixed together. But on this day there was such a sense of stillness with the soothing sound of rain falling on the freshly bloomed trees.

As for the Naftel Trail, though it was not very challenging, it did provide and array of texture from both forest and plant life, as well as a beautiful stream. On a dryer day there probably would be a variety of birds as we could hear them, but with the rain they were out of sight. There were signs of deer as you could see their ruts engraved in the long grass. This would definitely be a beautiful trail to walk both in the fall and winter months.

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