Oh Raiders!

Ok, let's just hope they look better than they've looked during the pre-season! :)

breathtaking

quoting

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~ Albert Einstein

Go Raiders!

I know, it is only the first game of the pre-season, but 18 - 6 never looked so sweet!

Thoughts from Santa Rosa Island =)

A few things remembered, a few things learned:

• I am very very blessed & filled with an overwhelming gratitude for every. single. thing.
  
• Far more regular Stargazing is necessary
• I absolutely despise my new sleeping bag, "mummy bag" = hot squishy straitjacket!
• I can walk for miles and miles and miles
• Simplify & pare down - far less is really required than imagined & a lighter load goes a longer way
• Sometimes you simply must keep going, no matter how much you don't want to or feel like you can't, giving up just isn't a survivable option
• Steep trail, rest often
• Pushing yourself often provides the most awesome rewards and shows you that you actually can do far more than you might think
  
• Taking time out is a requirement and must be done more regularly and often
  
• There are still places in the world absent of noise and artificial light
• Nature is phenomenal
• Literally one step at a time: don't look ahead or focus thoughts on the challenges ahead, even if you think you know, you can't anticipate what hasn't happened yet and sometimes you can be very pleasantly surprised
  
• Sometimes the next corner is exactly what you were looking for, sometimes it's not
  
• Sometimes it is good to be a little lost, unsure of the territory
• Sometimes exactly what you need shows up in the least likely way
  
• I am madly in love with Tall Ships
• There is still so much to learn, to experience, to do and to be
• Breathtaking beauty in so very much, if only we look
  

quoting

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."
- Greg Anderson

Off the island

Arrived back on the mainland safely late last night, my lips are cracked, my face is chapped, I am bruised and sore from head to toe and still grinning from ear to ear - what a fantastic trip! Took over 700 pictures! It may take a few days to get them posted.