I visit Endor

[botias]

I waffled about the Sierra Club hike in the local weekly. What about all the things I should be doing? Go, A tells me, have fun. Well, there were two people at the carpool meeting place, neither of whom were from the Sierra Club. Upon discovering this, the older woman muttered some excuse (already hiked at the office?) tossed her hiking stick back into her car and departed. The guy was still game. I supplied the car he supplied the non-stop conversation as we drove to the trail head. "Did you know that even though the stars look really small up in the sky they are actually huge and would totally destroy the Earth if they ever fell on it? I really enjoy astronomy. I love to visit planetariums. Do you think San Francisco has a planetarium?" I allowed as I thought that it did. To his credit, he always stopped immediately whenever I attempted to speak and listened politely.

At the trail head there was another guy, also not from the Sierra Club. After waiting fruitlessly, the guys agreed that they wished to complete the hike anyway. This sounds like the beginning of the sort of story that ends with rescue helicopters and mounted searches. "Not knowing the hike had been canceled due to a conflict with the bi-annual black bear rampage and flash flood derby, the inexperienced hikers decided to proceed on their own." I took charge, purchasing a trail map and suggesting a route, and we managed to complete the hike ourselves without injury or being attacked by mountain lions. I saw gorgeous scenery, was menaced by very large trees, and got some great exercise. I forgot my camera, but that's OK lots of other folks did not. I saw cool snails much cooler than the ones in my garden, and the rhodys were blooming.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Man. this sounds like every Sierra Club singles hike a friend went on in the 80's that I ever had to hear her bitch about. Minus the bitching.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Heh. No, not the best place to meet men. Now I'm wondering where I would go to meet men. Perhaps the local Linux Users Group. :P

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

LOL - glad you had a good time!

[botias.livejournal.com]

I did actually! Thanks!

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Hee- sounds like quite a day. At least you managed to avoid the mountain lions, and got some great stories out of it!

[botias.livejournal.com]

Yup, mission accomplished. :)

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Endor! I sure miss that crazy little forest moon. :]

Chatty guy... wow. I've met him so many times. It's hard for me to resist the temptation to string him along. "Wow, really? I thought they were really tiny, like the moon! I mean, the moon is really close to us, and it's really small, like as big as a house, right?" The downside of that is that he tends to assume at that point that I'm "interested" in him, instead of fantasizing about stabbing him in the face, though usually a comment about "my husband" will get him off that track. Wow, I can be a mean bitch... :P

[botias.livejournal.com]

It's pretty nifty. Next I can visit Jurassic Park II which I understand was partly filmed in Fern Canyon.

Hee! I'm not surprised you've met him so often. I felt like I was in a movie.

I live with kids so I'm used to this sort of earnest stream-of-consciousness conversation, and he was all very liberal and stuff, wanted to marvel at the redwoods (very big!) and for everyone to be free and happy and have enough to eat. Possibly smoked too much pot in his 50 years. Hopefully he will find someone equally, uh, among the stars.

[(Anonymous)]

Lucky you. Sounds like you had a good time. The flowers at the end of your hike made it worth while.