Things not to do on your vacation: get sick
Which means I didn't manage most of the hiking I'd hoped to get in, but there were still many wonderful moments. I'm working on posting about some of them. I spent a truly ridiculous amount of time reading, and a lot of time watching how the color of several square miles of earth can change depending on the time of day. What power there is in light.
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Edit:
Here are some bits from the first few days of my trip. Some of these are short snippets, some full-length entries.
http://plantgirl.livejournal.com/2007/06/25/ (one medium entry, one short)
http://plantgirl.livejournal.com/2007/06/26/ (two short, one medium)
http://plantgirl.livejournal.com/676872.html (one long entry)