After posting several backpacking and hiking stories on my website this past year, I was a little surprised at many of the comments I received. It seems that I have conveyed to the reader the perception that my hikes are filled with anguish, suffering and agony. When I write about Karen and I on a hiking adventure, I sometimes focus on mishaps, mistakes and bad luck, just to add a little spice and drama to the story. I do this because I think it will be more interesting than describing things like beauty and peacefulness of nature. You know my sense of humor and the way it gets me in trouble. Instead of talking about happy experiences, I tend to focus too much on what can and did go wrong. I can totally see how this would lead the reader to think our hikes are some gruesome ordeal and that\u2019s not what I want everyone to believe. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m not very good at writing about the way it makes me feel when Karen and I go hiking on the weekends. For those of you who haven\u2019t seen her comment on my last post, I\u2019m going to repeat it here. I couldn\u2019t have said it better in a million years!<\/p>\n
Comment by Karen, 8\/10\/10, “Sixty Five Down, Forty To Go”:<\/p>\n
Shortly before we embarked on our quest to hike 100 miles of the NCT, I came across this quote:
\n“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” Anonymous <\/p>\n
This is the mantra with which I step on to the NCT each weekend. I love to be out in the forest spending time with my dad, finding humor in our discomfort, contentment in the minutia of the experience, and joy in the practice of “dancing in the rain”. It may sound crazy but don’t knock it until you’ve walked a mile in my soggy shoes. lol \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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