Lovely hike, feet-shoes performed admirably (I'm wearing vibram FiveFinger shoes), and the hammock was really splendid.
The hammock weighs about a pound-ish and rolls up to the size of a large grapefruit. I can put it in my little track-bag and unfurl it when I get to someplace pretty. It requires a couple of minutes to set up between two trees and was very conducive to napping. I was on the side of a pretty steep hill so falling would have been... well... it's good I didn't fall. The wind blowing all around me was great.
On my way back to the car I also discovered a wild plum tree. I didn't know that they grew naturally here. The plums were green, about the size of large marbles, and very delicious. I must have eaten twenty to thirty of them. I felt bad eating all of them but then I realized that that was what the tree wanted me to do. I started throwing the pits as far as I could as payment to the tree (and for when I return the same spot-become-plum-orchard ten years from now.) After gorging I decided to head back for real, grabbed a half-dozen for the road, and started walking, eating the plums as I went. After throwing the second pit in the bushes on my way I realized that this was exactly what I was intended to do. Clever Plum Tree.
It felt as if I, by acting perfectly casually, entered into part of a well designed machine where everything was beneficial and optimal for everyone. I wasn't thinking about payment to the tree like before but I accomplished an even better result (one pit deposited roughly every fifteen feet) just by wanting to continue tasting the delicious plums on my way home.
Kudos Evolution - I never really respected how robust you were until I met that plum tree.
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