That sinking feeling…
I walked the Leon County Sinks Geological area this morning. It was very cool. I’ve done it once before but not like this.
It’s a wonderful area of forest, grasslands, and swamps with huge sink holes scattered throughout. I took the trail with a friend because we are working on getting in shape for a week long camping trip up north. Periodically when we would come an interesting hill or rise I would sprint to the top. I must have sprinted at least 20 times during the over five mile hike. It had to be at least a mile of running through the forest. It’s so much easier to run in the woods than it is to run on the road. It’s a completely different feel. I really enjoyed it and may do it again. It costs three dollars to get into the park though so I’m not sure if it’ll be a regular thing, but still it’s a great nature hike.
Mid-way through the trails we kept saying, “Man where’s the camera.” We should have brought a camera and took pictures because then I could have included pictures in this blog post rather than boring old words. Oh well, next time.
We’re doing the Garden of Eden trek in two weeks so I’ll have some pictures of that. On a good note, I was hardly winded for most of those sprints. 
If I had done this a couple months ago … well I wouldn’t have been able too. The Road to Mt. Olympus is getting easier.
Darn, we shouldn’t brought a camera.
Later.
The park sounds other worldy - not enough of us leave the asphalt, cement, noise and city scents these days. Communicating with nature is a wonderful balancer in our stressfull lives.
I am continually amazed how man is so blind to our earthly gifts. Isn’t it wonderful squirrels don’t have bank accounts but can read an acorn harvest!?! I have even read that if the earth is in a cycle for a bad acorn harvest they will hold back on breeding!