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canyonwalkerNorth Carolina Travelog #15
Back at the hotel - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 10pm
Today has been an amazing day. We went on several hikes and visited a whopping 10 waterfalls... all within a 30-45 minute driving radius of our hotel. I didn't even realize it was 10— I kind of lost count after 5 or 6— until we got back to our hotel room this evening and I sorted through my pictures.
As deliriously happy as we were throughout the day we also had moments of self criticism. You know, that feeling you have when you're doing something that is amazing and you pause to reflect, "Okay, this is amazing.... Why didn't I do it sooner?"
In our case "sooner" could have been twenty-some years ago when we lived in North Carolina. We lived here. Well, not here-here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We lived a few hours away in Chapel Hill, NC. I was doing my grad work there, and Hawk stayed with me two summers between finishing her undergrad in another city. We could have made weekend trips out here.
Back at the hotel - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 10pm
Today has been an amazing day. We went on several hikes and visited a whopping 10 waterfalls... all within a 30-45 minute driving radius of our hotel. I didn't even realize it was 10— I kind of lost count after 5 or 6— until we got back to our hotel room this evening and I sorted through my pictures.
As deliriously happy as we were throughout the day we also had moments of self criticism. You know, that feeling you have when you're doing something that is amazing and you pause to reflect, "Okay, this is amazing.... Why didn't I do it sooner?"
In our case "sooner" could have been twenty-some years ago when we lived in North Carolina. We lived here. Well, not here-here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We lived a few hours away in Chapel Hill, NC. I was doing my grad work there, and Hawk stayed with me two summers between finishing her undergrad in another city. We could have made weekend trips out here.
