Date: 2008-02-03
To: Can June come fast enough???
Miles today: 0.0

Let me start by saying that my picture has a certain relevance as I think of Miss J. See as many of you know her hostel has been a great place to stay for several years now, but she is in the process of getting ready to sell her house. The hope is that she can get some land and open up a trail center and new hostel...I hope she succeeds, she is one awesome lady as I have gotten to know her a little over the last three years.   So here's to you Miss J!!!On another note, just found out that my airline in June is now giving me 26 minutes to make my connecting flight in Baltimore. It's the same airline, so hopefully I don't have to move far to get to my flight, or if I'm lucky it will be the same plane just a different flight number, I can hope. June cannot come fast enough, for two reasons. First, summer vacation, no work, and second...time for adventure!!! OK, maybe adventure is too big a word, maybe I should just say "escape from reality". Yep, sounds much better. I talked to my mom for an hour and half today, I had to make sure I was still a man for talking that long on the phone with my mother, but we just got going on politics and family(two different topics!!!) I make no secret that I'm an Obama man, heck I gotta support the IL guy, and I could never vote for Hillary, don't trust her...I'll vote for McCain before I'll vote for her. My mother has typically always been a Republican, but tells me today, blowing my mind BTW, that she things she'll vote Democrat this time around, unless Hillary gets the nod. Then we talked awhile about the sheeple out there who think that HIllary will bring back the days of Bill...Bill lucked out and was president when nothing was going on, so in that spirit let's go back to Calvin Coolidge!!! Nothing going on and easy times doesn't mean you had a good president, sometimes it just means....nothing was really going on!!!   Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw not too long ago..."It's not a Democracy, it's an Auction!" Truer words have never been spoken about our political system today.But enough about politics...I know this is a hiking journal, so I should be talking "HIKING!" But I've already done that, so I think I'm gonna go stare at the ceiling and try to sleep...hopefully the insomnia is dying down, anyways, take care...oh yeah, and don't worry I don't talk politics on the trail unless I know you, just thought I'd have a little fun.Song for the Day:   Never really read the lyrics until today, and was like, Holy Crap, that's some deep shit!!! But it so fits and has just been playing in my head all day, so it's a classic, but sometimes that's a good thing...unless we're talking gear!Kashmir by Led ZeppelinOh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreamI am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have beenTo sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seenThey talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealedTalk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my earBut not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clearOh, oh.Oh, I been flying... mama, there aint no denyinIve been flying, aint no denyin, no denyinAll I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the groundAnd my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted landTrying to find, trying to find where Ive been.Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dreamHeed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert streamMy shangri-la beneath the summer moon, I will return againSure as the dust that floats high and true, when movin through kashmir.Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of yearsWith no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear