And Now Take It Away Steve!
All right so this is my first guest blog....
Im not sure what to wear?
| Maybe my keyboard armor? |
Maybe not...
Ah whatever...
Now today I have a confession... er... post.
Its a story I feel I must share with you all....
A TRUE STORY!
You see last weekend....
While making yet another creative breakfast....
| The old severed hand breakfast... ...which is bloody delicious!! |
Well... I got to some thinking..
I decided I needed to get out and get some fresh air...
I needed to enjoy me some nature...
So I talked my girlfriend into joining me...
On a short little hike..
Now first off... like any good "hikey"...
We had to get prepared for our "voluntary walking torture"... er... hike....
| So I put on my hiking clothes... |
And she put on her hiking boots.........
| Which..... she would SO later regret... |
(Bonus fact "People who hike regularly"- they also make ladies hiking sandals these days!!)
| Which 9 out of 10 women reviewed as... "Ankle Shattering!" |
But anyways.... thats not what I wanted to talk about.
This story isn't about shoes its about "the hike"....
And so... for us.. being the novice hikers we are...
We picked out a short little 5 mile loop to hike...
And we set out.... cranked up the tunes....
| And car karaoked all the way to the forest. Man we were feeling good! |
But we would NEVER COMPLETE THAT LOOP!!
More on that later.
Now at first the hike was fun....
| We crossed streams... and hiked small hills... |
And all was good...
We even met some very friendly fellow hikers who helped point us in the right direction....
| But with the "pointer mother nature gave him?" |
And so we hiked on.....
We.... even ran into a man stuck in some quicksand...
| Who offered us booze... before he sank. How nice was that!! "Hiking rules!"... the couch potato in me said. |
We were having so much fun....
I joked about coming back out here another weekend...
| But in my bear costume... I mean how great would that be! |
We even talked about taking our hiking to the next level one day..
| The over the edge level! |
All was so good..
Hiking was stupid easy!!!
So we hiked on.....
| And we crossed streams... and small hills... |
And hiked on even more...
| And we crossed streams... and small hills.... |
And it was less fun.
"Man shouldn't we be back by now" I thought to myself...
"Had I not seen this same stupid hill already" I thought?
And then it happened...
I realized we were lost.
You see I had been reading my girlfriends compass all day!
| And it was dead wrong!!! |
And tired....
And lost...
| Now... I knew what to do when lost in snow... but not nicer weather??? |
My girlfriend now upset and tired... was done with this!
I needed a plan!
So I thought and I thought...
And then I had an extremely "tough" power bar...
| This one? |
And then I thought some more.....
And then it happened...
I came up with a plan....
You see we needed to turn around and....
"Hike back some 8 miles" I told her.....
| And explained to her with my fingers. |
She responded to my plan .....
| With hers.... |
So with nothing else to do... we turned around...
And walked...
And walked....
And walked....
And after seeing some rock formations that seemed to be only....
| "Mocking us?" |
We eventually made it back to the car.
Hallelujah!!!
We could finally go home...
However.... and sadly...
| That was not to be. You see it didn't start.. Apparently some car karaoke-er had left the radio on?? |
So we did what true hikers would do in this situation..
| We walked home... In what I now refer to as... "The long expletive hike home?" |
Now I would like to tell you all a story of how we grew closer as we hiked home....
And that we now laugh about our adventure these few days later....
But I think that will have to wait....
| Till her blisters subside? |
Till then...
And from the dog house...
Blog ya'll later!
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The link for today's guest Steve Bailey is http://steve-bailey.blogspot.com/
