memories

i found myself, for a change, back at virtual maps, and my visit brought forth a flood of memories and feelings.

the last time i can remember visiting this site was well over a year ago, when i went searching one friday afternoon (if my habits have not changed) for a map of nisene marks. that saturday morning i would drive happily down the peninsula in my saturn, wielding a printed map that would find great use as i hiked 17 miles with my good pal and my wife-to-be.

that was our second hike together. over the months i would look forward desperately to the weekends, when a friday afternoon/night phone call would precede a saturday morning reunion in some near-by far-off new-to-me place of sun and green and life and joy, to spend as long a day together as we could manage to extract from the trails of the bay area.

when i saw that webpage just minutes ago i was struck by more powerful longing than i've felt in a while. i wished (sorry rictor/veg) that it was 203 that i was meeting tomorrow morning. i hope that a year from now, the excitement of waking up to her smile does not diminish the familiar excitement of finding that same smile waiting for me at the trailhead of some near-by far-off place.