LEOGANE, HAITI TO THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL.

I have innumerable loved ones out there who are doing incredibly cool, challenging, and inspiring things. Take the time to get to know Rachel Shaver, partner with Hands on Disaster Response in Haiti and Lauren Moran, partner with the Samaritan House of Atlanta Inc. 

Thank me later. These women rock. 

THE WHITE MOUNTIANS

Go out in the woods,
go out.

If you don't go out
in the woods-
nothing will ever happen,
and your life will never begin.

This quote caught my eye in a funky, favorite shop of mine yesterday as it was scribbled down a handmade bookmark. I thought it quite relative to my upcoming adventure on the Appalachian Trail. Anne-Marie and I hope to embark on our drive up to New Hampshire on the 30th and start walking into the glorious woods by the 1st of August. By inquiry of certain Trail experts, we discovered that this particular 161 mile section of the A.T. boasts the beautiful and rugged White Mountains. With elevation ranges of 400-6,288 feet, we expect the challenge of steep accents and the reward of dramatic views from a trail predominately above timberline. I anticipate all but gracefully dancing along the traverses, I imagine the weight of my heavy pack suddenly lifted by the mountain high and I predict the laughter that will flutter along with us like the tail of a kite through those lush, green valleys.

Go out in the woods, yes. Ever more importantly...

WHEREVER YOU GO, GO WITH ALL YOUR HEART. CONFUCIUS