Zach's Solo Trip

I just returned from a great 11 days on the road to Southern California. With my good friend from college getting married in Santa Barbara I thought it a good excuse to revisit California and play in some of my favorite places Julie and I discovered last year when we passed through. I'll be blogging in different segments in short stories so I don't get blogged out. Since I have a sprained ankle, it is good for me to be typing while sitting with my foot elevated and iced. We'll have to get to that story in the proper order though.
Starting at 6:00 am I drove, Gloria south along the eastern valleys of CA until the High Sierras rose above me in the setting sun. Parking at the end of the road in a little RV park I packed and dawned my pack setting off up the switch backs leading into the high alpine meadows. Just after dark I found my camp on the flat of a huge boulder stacked high on an old glacial moraine. Climbing and hiking the clean granite walls under the fractured ridge lines in between naps among the heather filled my second day. The objective for day 3 was relax and meditate on the rhythms of nature. Check! I hiked out during the late afternoon light, past deer grazing in the meadow, numerous water cascades with their day end torrents crashing down off the upper snow fields and other people enjoying all the great wild flowers et all. There was just enough time for me to throw my pack in the van and drive across the valley to the local, natural, primitive hot springs and soak in the sunset. Aha! Life in the flow.




Back soon with more. love and light zach