Saturday, January 30, 2010

From mountian tops

From a "mountian top" is actually where I am blogging from.

This afternoon, I went on an adventure. There is soo much I have learned from adventuring, bu today's lesson is this:
I am sitting on the side of a hill between Burbank and Hollywood. The paths are car sized though there is not supposed to be moterized vehicles on them, ad they are steep. As I climb to the top of one hill I can look back behind me and see PARTS of where I was. As I look ahead of me I can see even less of where I am going. When I look behind me (or rather down te hill) I can see where other people are walking right where I walked, and see when some of them are choosing the dead end I chose and had to turn around at. There is this raviene that cuts down the side of the hill and as I stand on one side of it I look at the other side and point that as my goal. And it looks like a simple walk up and around to the other side, only a few hundred feet away. But as I walk to the top to go back down the oter side I find it's actually quite a ways away- up several other hills to get to where I was looking at...

Like my dad tells this story of when he was driving in Colorado, through the mountians. He would see a patch of road a little ways a head of him, but as they drove down one hill to climb up the next, there was an extra fifty miles inbetween him and the

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