Author’s note: This is one of the first “long” pieces that I ever wrote. I believe this is from 2002. It was shortly after 9/11 and a job lost due to a corporate merger. It was not the best of times to be looking for work in the IT field as literally every other programmer in America was doing the same thing.
I actually have it on another website of mine, but I wanted to bring it over to here to have my scribblings gathered together.
A 9 Day Walk-About in the Ozark Wilderness
Pseudo-philosophical babblings
Backpacking is occasionally just plain damn hard work, which sometimes makes it hard for me to explain my fascination with it.
In April when Jeff and I hiked the Grand Canyon we had gotten ourselves in reasonable shape by several training hikes in the Ozarks and Ouachitas. If one can really call trekking through such beauty a training exercise. Outside of the crowded coasts or someplace where it snows 13 months of the year, I cannot think of too many places in America more awe inspiring than the Ozarks. I did not want conditioning to be an issue when I hiked to one Nature’s masterpieces, the Grand Canyon.
I usually walk and work out regularly, but with the way the job search has gone I have allowed depression to get hold of me. Those activities have gone by the way side in favor of Gilligan’s Island reruns. Go ahead, give me the opening premise, and I will give you the plot line.
One afternoon as I lay on the couch fantasizing Continue reading “Ozark Walk-About”