Good vibes all around, Aqua Dulce (mile 454) has received me well. Today is full of thankfulness due to the fact that two of my truest friends join me today, I shall kick the dust to Canada with them. Yesterday I wrote a long and detailed blog and of course my phone died and I no longer have those words. So this will be a short and half sweet rundown of my past week. The trend this last section seems to have been very up..down..up..down, along with the avoidance dance to maneuver around the nasty poodle dog bush, it sounds cute but I have heard horror story's of the reaction to this bush from past hikers. My hand grazed a bush, I became a hypochondriac for a day due to the story I heard about a guy's hand being nearly amputated from a reaction. Whether this story is true I can not speak for but I still have my hand...I still have my hand, thankfulness be to this! I spent a lovely day in Wrightwood, complete with banana bread from my mother, which was the motivation for hiking 24 miles before 2:30 to get to town. We layed in the grass and ate two loafs in almost one sitting, hiker hunger has kicked in! Did my longest day yesterday, 36 miles, we did some night hiking under the waxing moon, the contrast of the moon light on the mountains was magic. I should share some philosophical thoughts I am contemplating but that will have to wait until next blog, I may say that I exist and being in this element gives a whole new light to that existence. The desert is painted with magic, communion is true, I am alive and well!
May green be the grass you walk on
May blue be the skies above you
May pure be the joys that surround you
May true be the hearts that love you
~Sagi
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