5/13

Today we are in Big Bear City, we are at a trail Angel's house named "Papa Smurf" and "Mt Mama". They are a beautiful couple helping out hikers however they can, it all started when they picked up a hiker hitching to town last Memorial Day, they decided to start opening they're house up to hikers and now they serve almost 20 a night, meals and all. It's pretty incredible to have such support from people who have never even hiked the trail, they just believe in what your doing and want to help you do it. "Trail magic" is true magic! The first day out of Idyllwild we climbed San Jacinto, it was a foggy day in the mountains, we got to the top of the mountain above the clouds and laid in the sun, ah the sun after two days of rain. We stayed at trail angel "Ziggy&Bear's" house, we soaked our feet in hot water while eating ice cream...what a rough life we live! Trail angels leave surprise soda/water cache's in random spots along the trail, we enjoyed a Shasta soda under interstate I-10 bridge, and better understood why hobo's dig bridges. The cache we found saturday had a recliner on top of the mountain, we managed to fit four dirty hikers on it and watched the sun set. If all this to say, I have been showed nothing but complete kindness from the trail and people in support of this trail. On top of San J peak I had this feeling of being a foreigner, "to review this all as a foreigner",  I wrote in my journal. To wake up each morning in the realization that everything you will experience that day is a completely foreign reality, there is great zeal in this realization. I have been asked if there is any sort of revelation to which I could attest. I may say that revelation is taking place, not in the form of language or any such thing I can explain but in perception. I can say I am in adoration of the people and environment I am with, and for this perception which was not found, but rather unveiled, I am thankful. It is important to realize that these realizations lie not only to people given my opportunity but to everyone, in every walk of life. I do nothing different from any other person, I wake up, I eat, walk, eat, use the "bathroom", walk, eat, sleep, it is all the same but to notice each action as something Devine, you are the breathe of life. These places only make you realize that the day to day process is not the point, it is in what manner you choose to repeat this human routine. 

    I must get food and get walking again, it is a beautiful day for a walk, I wish happy trails to all of you! 

Lovingly,

-Sagittar