2-12-08 (last nature walk)

I needed to stop. Not because I am tired or thirsty, or even injured. But because I have found a little nook that is one of the most amazing sights I have seen here yet, in catavina. Lots of moderatly sized boulders piled on one atop of another, allow me to have little sight towards the direction I have come from. I'm ok with that, because it leaves me no where to look but towards my unknown destination.

I now see a humming bird not only 6 feet away, a white butterfly in the distance and a cricket at my feet. I have never experienced nature quite like this before. Walking by myself in a place that I was only here for a couple of nights, not to long ago, I feel like I know it like the back of my sister's hand. Not very well, but I am determained to get to know it more.

My feet are getting hot. I have socks on now. Simply because I stepped on a long sharply pointed needle of a diamond choya. I wanted to yell for help, but I kept walking to find a rock to perch my reckless foot. After pulling out the two needles, so painfully inserted in my foot, I kept walking. Away from that damn rock, on which lay my blood covered needles lay.

The mixture between wind and sun put my leg in pure agoney. I bitch a lot, I know, but it wont stop hurting. I wish that I never vowed to myself to never take any type of pain killing medicine unless 100% necessary. The vow is a mixture of my hypocondriact tendencies, and the death of Travis.

It's probably getting near 11 o'clock and I need to keep walking to find the materials I need to make my gift. I know what I'm making, for who and why, but I'm not going to tell you, simply because we aren't allowed to tell anyone. And for that my friend, I'm going to keep walking, southeast I believe.