[Morning Freewrite]
I sing the ode to morning.
The time of day when all is well.
The time of day when all is swell.
I sing the ode to morning.
New and fresh.

Somehow, despite not being a morning person as a child, I've developed a
certain attachment to the morning.  It's not hot or birhgt like midday.
It's not gloomy like evening.  It's not dark light night.  And I suppose,
having it be the first thing to greet you when you wake up is also a good
thing.  Morning.  It's quite a great time.

What else can I say this morning?  I am thinking that I am going to hike
this summer with some certainty now.  I need to contact Warren Doyle and
Uncle Spencer to figure out exactly when and where though.  If I can hike
with the Circle 2k expedition, I think i might do the AT again.  If not, I
think I'll hike something else.  Why?  Because I think it would be too
sentimental to walk it now.  Too many memories that others would not be
there to share.  But I already know the Circle 2K members.  They'd be good
company.

If I don't hike the AT, then what?  I've been wondering this for a while and
I think I'd go vaguely north.  I'd hit the North Country Trail somewhere in
New York and hike that into Vermont.  Skip over to the Long Trail and maybe
hike down to Bennington.  Or maybe up to Canada.  Maybe I'd do the Northern
section of the AT again and end up at Katahdin.  I kinda want to head south
for Trail Days in Damascus, but I don't know how I'd get there at the
correct time.  Have to hitch-hike or see who else is going I suppose.

Hiking the IAT out to the ocean soiunds intriguing.  I might do that.  Then
double back to Katahdin.  That's uncertain.  Options are open to me.  I
suppose, though, that I should start ordering some information so I knwo
what my possibilities are.

I think I'll wait to hear if there's room in the Expedition though.  There's
something about the AT that seems to want to draw me back.

I wonder if I can make the March-April hike.  I'd have to figure out how to
get down to Virginia.  That could be a problem.  I'm not exactly on the way
to anywhere so I doubt that anyone would be coming here.  I suppose I could
hit the busline in Olean and try to ride out to New York City and then down
to VA.... Maybe meet up with someone in the points between.....
[End Morning Freewrite]

Writing is good for the soul.  I've only been writing here for three days,
now, but the act of writing every day is making me feel more in touch with
life.