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October 31, 2007

Day 3

Today I drove from Ithaca, New York to Elliot, Maine. Not a far drive compared to yesterday. The weather was perfect again. The day started with Russian pancakes and taking lots of pictures of the beautiful fog over the hills and ponds.


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(This B&B is so wonderful that they even have their own little pony.)


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I said good-bye to Wanda (who I found out is a Polish biologist who started a B&B when her kids were little so she could keep an eye on them herself and has been doing it ever since- 15 years) and started off. The fog was so thick in places that the sun looked dark and gray, kind of moonish.

I drove through mountains and mountains, but started to get weary of just looking and not touching. I got tired of them whipping by and only getting to see them for a second. So I was very excited to learn, when I got to a visitor's center on the Massachusetts turnpike, that the Appalachian trail crossed the path of the highway just two miles down the road!


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Thank you God for creating my itinerary. I really appreciate the way you put good things in my path that I have only to turn to like the flowers turn toward the sun that they love best. It's very loving of you.

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I spent an hour and a half hiking up a beautiful mountain and half an hour bouncing down it. There will be many pictures, maybe even a movie. It was like a pilgrimage for me to be on this trail, so connected to the spirit for me. It was such a gift. I was SO home. I wished I was a tiny elf that could just creep into that hollow space in the mossy tree next to the creek bubbling down over big chunks of rock spilling down the mountain.


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Now I'm at Green Acre Baha'i School, we'll see what awaits!

Posted by Bahiyyih at October 31, 2007 07:09 PM
Comments

I love the idea of being a little elf living in the hollow of a mossy tree. I always feel like I can't quite soak up the beauty of nature around me enough as I am. I literally want to be one with it, flying and swooping among the clouds, climbing and jumping from tree to tree, etc.

Posted by: Heather at November 3, 2007 10:07 AM