Ticks and Trails

Went on a 30 minute walk with my lovely coworker in the woods today and came out with 15 ticks on me...fun. Moments that followed included the most thorough tick check in my personal history (read: North Carolina foreplay) and a super sudsy shower to try to get any poison ivy oils off me, just in case. The trail was overgrown for the most part, but the last .5 mile was stunningly beautiful and conveniently enough, mowed. I'll return to that section for sure.

Later I went to the Active Trail (the paved one with pull up bars and monkey bars and step-up ladders etc on the side of the trail) and ran 3+ miles and did lots of the trailside exercises. I meditated on top of the hill afterward and watched a storm front move across the wide open sky. I love that place because I can actually see the curvature of the horizon and sky since it's so wide open.