A Hike in the Rain – 5 Miles of Bliss Away from 2nd-hand Smoke

The fresh air was exceptionally refreshing and the steady light rain added to the feeling of being cleansed and purified on all levels — body, mind and spirit, through every cell atom and molecule.  A bonus over the 5 mile hike was that the rain kept humans away–there wasn’t another soul throughout the whole trek.  There were only the sounds of my breath, the hiking poles and my feet against the earth,  squirrels scurrying about, the tapping of the rain against the leaves the whole time.  

I hiked through tunnels of red, yellow and orange leaves that acted like a natural umbrella keeping the trail beneath dry and only where there were a few breaks in the trees was the trail wet.  It was a cool day too (temperatures in the 50’s) and occasionally a cold wet drop of rain would hit my head.  I’d pretend it to be mother nature blowing me a kiss from above and smiled all the more when that happened.

Once I broke out in song feeling…