May 13, 2007 20:28
Hey everybody
School's out, I'm going to be taking care of some very serious business for the next week (even if it happens to be at the beach), but please feel free to give me a call and say that you want me to drive somewhere and see you for a while. I just got back from a great camping / backpacking trip- I smell like woodsmoke and ocean breeze, and I feel at home with myself. It's a good start to the summer- sunburns aside. We went to Assateague island off the Maryland coast- it's the one that's paired with Chincoteague and has all the wild ponies on it. The first night we showed up, there was a fog so thick that you couldn't see 10 feet of the beach around you- standing halfway down from the dune, you couldn't see the ocean at all. There's stories about spirits travelling in that kind of mist; I like to think there was a spirit or two in that mist, enjoying the wild ponies and ocean air along with me.