"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -Lao Tzu

We embarked on a journey with no intention of getting back home quickly and no care of how many miles we tacked on the odometer. 

Who knew Stairway to Heaven was more than a 70's rock song?!

"We carry a means to shelter and eat and sleep, sure - but it's so much more than that. Backpacking is a means to loosen our grip on civilized reality, a portal to escape time set by clocks, to undress pretenses and simply exist." -Marisa Jarae

This is always the hardest part of the whole blog post, thinking of something clever to say. 

Uhhhhhh...mischief managed?

Why doesn't America tell knock-knock jokes?! BECAUSE FREEDOM RINGS BABY!!!

“Half dome was perfectly inaccessible, being probably the only one of all the prominent points about Yosemite which has never been and will never be trodden by human foot.”

-Josiah Whitney, 1868. George Anderson was the first person to climb Half Dome seven years later...and we ascended it a century and a half later.

If you want to die and cry at the end of a hike...do this one.

Both are metaphorical, please don't really die or cry. This hike will make you smile, how's that?

Warning: will cause urge to pack a bag and tackle this hike. 

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
                                                                                                                        -John Muir