Bucket List: Annual Hiking Trip

So, I know it's starting to become a fad to make a bucket list, but it is a practical exercise. For those who have not heard or seen the movie, a bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you kick the proverbial bucket. Cutesie.

So, here's to starting my own list, and let's see how many I can done before this life is done with me.



When Kevin was here for Labor Day, we found ourselves at an outdoor outfitters store. To kill some time, we decided to peruse the camping department and one thing just led to another.

Wouldn't it be great to go hiking and camping, and make a week of it? A guy's week (or, long weekend) away, at a different trail every year. To get away from the routine and the technology that have become ingrained in our daily lives. To find an obscure road that's a rough scribble on a tattered map and just letting God reveal His creation to us.

I've never really thought about doing anything like this before. Not that I'm opposed to roughing it in the great outdoors, but it just hasn't ever crossed my mind before.

So, as Kevin and I left that store, we verbally committed to (more like, just really wanted to) organizing an annual hike. Some time in the spring or fall when it's not too hot or too cold. Some place maybe West River where the topography is more fascinating than the rolling plains around here.

If you have any tips for a week or weekend hike around these parts, do let us know.