I'm in Luray

Don't ask. I have no idea where I am. Think of Podunk. Then cut it in half. One place (besides Mickie D's) to buy coffee.

I must say, though, that breakfast at Uncle Bucks really is good. A Build it yourself omelet atuffed with tomato, mushroom, and swiss for $5.50 with toast and potatoes. I may be able to skip lunch, I'm so full.

It did take them a few minutes to figure out their WiFi but they were great about it and found me a place at the bar (obviously not open on Sunday morning) so that I could have an outlet.

So if you are in Luray, try Uncle Bucks. Although there ain't nuthing more (I'm getting used to the vernacular) it's worth it.

Waterfalls

A dear friend called last night!!! :>)

We talked about the three waterfalls on my hike yesterday and wondered what it is about waterfalls that make us hike miles just to see them.

Why I hike - Part 3

Fold an 8 1/2 X 11 piece of paper in half, lengthwise, then open it up to form a V. Make it the color of dead leaves. Never mind, make the sheet of paper out of earth, and cover it with crushed leaves. Then put rocks on the surface, large boulders as big as a house, small pebbles, and everything in between. But don't spread them out evenly, make it random, but save a lot for the center of the V. Then put in trees, hundreds of trees, with leaves just beginning to open in the spring, but so many of them that you can barely see the sky. What you can see of the sky is so blue as to almost be black with a few small puffs of white barely moving. Now raise on end of the paper so that it is like a hill with a 60 foot waterfall at the top and a large stream on the bottom. So much water is coming off the waterfall through the rocks in the V that it is all you can hear.

Now find a flat rock about halfway up and take off your day pack and take out a sandwich and drink for lunch and just sit there, in the quiet roar of the water and the cool warmth of the sun.

For fifteen minutes yesterday my world was peace and beauty.

gotta love April

from 92 degrees to 42 in 36 hours. good sleeping weather. also good schlepping weather.

oops

the reason I titled the last post as I did was that it really didn't start raining until about 5 so I could have eked out a full hike. I have enough time on my hands without the weatherman screwing me out of a couple of hours of activity.