...life as a "Boonie"

As I sit here I can see the blue radiating off of the Blue Ridge Mountains and it still (after four years) takes my breathe away. It is these mountains that pulled me and and made me stay here at App. My only worry is what I am going to do without them... I really don't know what next year is going to bring, but the pure fact that these mountains won't be in my vision every single day will most likely be the hardest thing I'll have to deal with. (It may be harder then just leaving App...)

The issue is that I forget they are there until nights like tonight where they are literally so blue I can see them from a mile away. It's moments like this that remind me to get off my butt and get outside.. All I want to do and all I've been wanting to do for the past week is to take a hike or go camping and tackle the outdoors-- because who knows when that snow is going to come. But the problem is reality hits in and I remember EVERY single other thing that I have to do.

It's this "instantaneous" life we lead that keeps pulling me back from running into the woods and onto this computer. Hopefully, there will be one moment or day that will let me forget about all the papers, applications, presentations, and meetings I have...

all I want is to revert back into being a Boonie... and never lose those mountains.

Blue Ridge Parkway: Boone, NC