Month April 2025
I enjoy hiking and I especially like doing it alone. I feel it’s very relaxing to be able to go at my own pace, slow down or speed up as I want, take as many or as few breaks as I need, and not having to consider other people at all. I also feel there’s something special about being alone in nature, nothing but my own thoughts and the sounds of the animals around me. With that in mind, you’ll understand that I felt quite skeptical when my colleague sent an invitation in our group chat for a bunch of … Read the rest
This beach is unusually steep. I’m standing at the bottom of the hill, right where the coarse black sand meets the ocean; if I turn my head I can barely see over the crest. In the distance to my right, a cliff rises abruptly out of the sand, and off to my left the beach narrows to a point where the dark green hills come crawling down to the water. The slow swell of the Pacific gets bunched up against the steeply rising ground, and as it does a turquoise grey wall of water rises up in front of me. … Read the rest