hike!

during my trip i spent a lot of time at various parks.  if i never sleep in a tent (or a car, for that matter) again, i'll count myself lucky.  however, i did develop an appreciation for hiking.  my good friend kathy has started up a sort of informal weekly hiking group.  this was a 6 mile trek we took around monte bello open space preserve.    the trees were all covered in this thick moss (actually, i'm pretty sure it isn't moss). pretty!

nick & i still have a yearlong national parks pass and i want to take advantage of that, but the logical choices (i.e. yosemite) would mean snow this time of year, so i guess it'll have to wait.  sometime soon i'd love to see death valley & big sur...maybe i'll be setting up a tent again sooner than i'd anticipated.