Adventure's Voice

hat “something” lies deep within our human nature. It drives us to escape our modern world  and return to the great Nature which surrounds us. There we find a familiar place - a place of clarity, free from the stress and distractions that plague us in our daily routines. The only source of stress on the water is slack in the line which forms when a trout gets the best of us. But even then, we learn to let it go and move on to the next cast understanding that we were fortunate enough just to be part of that experience.

You don’t have to walk far on the Pine Ridge Trail to stand in a grove of redwoods. A mere quarter mile from the parking lot at Big Sur Station the trail dips down a gulley and the hot California sun is suddenly eclipsed behind the ever stretching arms of trees rising hundreds of feet towards the sky.

So much of modern life feels superficial - time spent only waiting for the next moment to begin or distracting ourselves from the moment at hand with whatever device is...

I had driven past fields like this in the winter only to see the dead, grey stalks of the once majestic flowers. But spring brings a resurrection of life and with life comes beauty. In that beauty we are able to find hope and purpose. 

I realized that everything we had done that weekend, every trail, every smile, every sunset, all of it was drifting away from me and from reality into some other realm of the past. By tomorrow, everything might as well been a dream.