On The Trail
This weekend my wife and I decided to go on our first hiking trip together. It was quite an experience! We decided to do a point to point on the Benton MacKaye trail. BTW, Benton MacKaye is the guy who basically pioneered the idea of land preservation for recreational purposes. He is also the one who came up with the idea for the Appalachian Trail. The Benton MacKaye trail is actually about 300 miles long, (too much for one weekend) so we decided to do section 1 and 2. This basically starts at Springer Mountain (The same point as the Appalachian Trail head) and hikes about 15 miles up to a suspension bridge over the Toccoa River. Pretty amazing hike!
The best part of being in the woods like this is the fact that you are away from everything! No cell phones, computers, TiVo… NOTHING! I brought my cell phone, but it didn’t work! It was amazing! Saturday night there was a HUGE thunder storm. It’s pretty amazing to experience a storm like that in the middle of the night, in the middle of the woods, with your only shelter being a small 2 person tent. Even if something happened (ie. A tornado!) it’s not like we could just hop in the car and drive to safety! We were at least a 2 hour walk to the nearest road and probably a 4 or 5 hour walk to any kind of civilization!
So, all that to say, in a world where we are so technologically driven and so “In Control” of everything, it’s amazing to be in a place where we recognize that we are totally helpless and we are just a small, tiny, little speck. But, yet, for some reason, He loves us!