inglorious wanderer

Mrs S rocks! And so does Mr K. Were it not for their connections, I would never have gone to see the Eagle Rock. I met them both at a meetup doing easy hikes at Lake Hodges in Rancho Bernardo. I hiked alongside Mr K at Lake Hodges. He kept forgetting my name. I kept telling him my gloriously generic name adding that I would never forget his name. My husband is his namesake. It was Mr. K, a former chemistry teacher at the Scripps Ranch High School who told me about the forthcoming hike to the Eagle Rock trails. After exchanging a few personal histories like where he was born and telling him where my husband, his namesake, was born, he would still ask me what my first name was. He was obviously multitasking. He was listening to his iPhone hiking apps and carrying on a conversation while watching his steps on the trails. I told Mr K that my husband go by his middle name Gary because his mother did not want to be calling his youngest son Richard as Dick. Mr. K talked about Dick Cheney a...

It was MaLou who pointed out the correct pronunciation to me. MaLou and I were hiking the Torrey Pines Trails. "Red Butt?" "It's read as 'byoot'." MaLou, my friend in college who lives in Oregon LOL'ed! I couldn't help running my hand upon my red face on reading Red Butte for the first time. A conspicuous and isolated with steep often vertical sides but arelatively flat top, buttes are smaller mesa and plateaus. Mother Earth's great big butte! The PCT where Morena Butte is located in Campo, CA is technically in the vicinity of the starting point of the fabled trail that stretches from the Mexican border all the way to the Canadian border. God blessed America! Thirteen hikers and seven dogs. The ducks showing the way. Tamara is wearing her red lipstick and using an umbrella. Beatrice says that Caramia came with her to America from Northern part of Germany. Grace Xing is pleasant character. Who is the author? ...