Sunday’s Adventure
Sunday started off early for me. I’m normally in bed until about 12 or 1. It is my day to rest. Some friends of mine invited us up to a park with them to go walking and swim in the river. The wife wasn’t feeling well so she opted to go back home after hanging out at the house for a little while before we left.
When we got to the park, it was around 1 or so. I don’t remember, mainly because I didn’t really have to worry about time. The park that we were at was an old golf course. It had become a state park from some reason. The club house buildings were falling a part and the golf cart trails were being taken over by weeds, grass, and trees. There is one thing that you can say about nature. Over time it will take what humans have made and completely destroy it. Some people say that it would take about 5 years of no one being in NY city for nature to reclaim it, and about 15 years before it started crumbling under itself.
Be that as it may, we had a great time. We went straight to the river. Headed down a field that was over grown and made out own path to the river. We were headed to the place that my friends had been to before, just took a different route.
When we got to the river we saw a water moccasin. It was swimming down stream so we decided to go up stream. I know swimming with snakes is not the smartest thing to do and most people would have not gotten in the water after seeing the snake in the first place.
The river was cold. It was great. The sun had been beating down on us for the 30 minutes it took to get to the river. We stated swimming up stream, walking on the sand bars and rocks. About half the journey up we saw a doe. It was very beautiful. You don’t get to see thing like that in the city unless you go to the zoo.
We hung around for a while sifting though the riverbed’s rocks. Plenty of quartz and other stones. There was also fools gold, and mica, that make the riverbed sparkle. It was fun just finding the different types of rocks. None of the mica or fools gold was big enough to keep.
We swam back down the river after a period of time and went hiking though other trails. This gave us all time to dry off.
It was a good time had by all. It was a good day to get out in to the woods. Getting back to the city sucked. I really don’t like the city, and after a few hours in the woods, and with nature, the city is very unnatural, and I felt very disoriented and out of place.
There are 5 Comments to "Sunday’s Adventure"
Sounds like it was fun. I don’t think I could have gotten in the water after I saw the snake but that is becasue I am scared of snakes.
i really thought you were going to say you were bit by a snake.
on a completely unrelated note, i’m totally with you regarding being out in nature and then coming back to the city. i’ve actually been looking up communes online. i think it would be a nice life, living in one.
Curvy: You know I have thought about that myself. More so I have wanted to start one with some friends of mine. I have not really talked about it with them much though. I would say about 100 acres would do the trick. It would be more of a free community than a restrictive one.
Farming and other such things. There would still have to be some kind of revenue to pay for the land taxes and other developmental cost.
I also don’t know how Syd would feel about that. 20 homes all working together. Almost Utopian. People say that it would never work, and more than likely not. It is a dream that a lot of people have.
yeah, we’ve talked about the same thing. i’m not convinced it would work, though. you’ve definitely got to have a group of committed people.
there’s one commune online that i really like, and if i were single, i’d go for it. not sure it would be the best place to raise a kid. i’ve got the link at work, will put it up here tomorrow. it sounds like what you’re talking about – 100 acres or so, 90 people all working together to get it done.
I found your blog via Google while searching for clone golf club reviews and your post regarding lone looks very interesting to me. I always enjoy coming to this site because you offer great tips and advice for people like me who can always use a few good pointers. I will be getting my friends to pop around fairly soon.