My new favorite feeling is the ache in my gut from laughing so hard it hurts.
Last night, I ran through the forest in the dark and mud, screeching like a crazy person as B-- chased me with the flash light off. He was growling like Sasquatch and I was Girl #2 in every B horror story ever written.
Should we have been hiking in the dark? Probably not. But going into the woods to sit in a tub of hot spring water is the best feeling on earth and totally worth the exhaustion I've been fighting all day.
For two hours, I felt like I was home again. Home in Montana. And it was lovely. The sky was pretty, the rain light. The water hot. The company, hilarious and relaxing.
And I've had the biggest grin on my face all day. I feel so happy and light.
Spontaneity has been absent for too long.
Last year I had such big plans for the summer, plans that went astray because I lacked the ability and funds to make them happen.
But I'm not going to let that happen this summer. If I want to go camping, I'm going camping.
If I want to go hiking at midnight with a bottle of wine and a dozen candles, then hike I shall.
What's the point in being unencumbered if you don't take advantage of the independence it provides?
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