I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in. -John Muir

There is no better way to experience the world around you than on a cool, foggy rainy day.  Yesterday we went out to Devil’s Lake State Park and strung a few trails together to cover just about 6 miles of woods, marsh and of course high cliffs.  Somewhere in there under a rock ledge we managed a damp picnic where the only sound was that of a near by crow.

Walking up to a cliff my son said it looked like the artist just stopped painting.  So we talked about all the things we would paint.  I of course would have the cliffs open up to the wide horizon of an ocean.

If you happen to get to the area, here is how to string a diverse 5.8 mile hike together at the park.  Now if we don’t have an 8 year old with us we can add about 3 more miles and one more set of cliffs.  As it is this was just enough that we heard those famous kid words, “I’m Tired” just as we were walking down the last hill back to the car.

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