We are on the road.  Or something like that.

Travelers.  By night and by day.  A long dang day… if you really want to know.  It started at 4 a.m. , in order to make an early flight out of Dayton.  Needless to say, it is now…. 8 p.m. California time, and we are just getting settled into our room.

Even though it was a long day, it was a good day.  But we are both very tired tonight.

But here we are in Yosemite National Park.  Driving into this park, is always an awesome site.  There are big boulders everywhere, and I love rocks.  Big rocks are even better.  Those boulders haven’t moved much since the last time I was here, about a decade ago.

Yet….  the 4 hours in the car to get here were a little sad.  This part of California is dead.

No water.  Nothing growing.  Cows grazing on brown nothing.  Golf courses look  like  nothing more than big sand traps.   No flowers.  No colors.  The green is gone.

As I said.  No water.

It makes me wonder what we are doing to this planet.  How much longer this place has before it all shrivels up and fades away.  Our children’s children?  Will they see it end?

I cannot guess.  I can only hope.  That it isn’t too late to figure out a way.  A way to at least slow down the destruction of this planet.

And so I leave you with a brief overview that most already know.   I speak of that great naturalist,John Muir.   He was, and is, so closely associated with Yosemite National Park.   And for good reason.  The guy  helped draw up its proposed boundaries in 1889.  He wrote many magazine articles that led to  the park’s creation in 1890.  And then, in 1892, he co-founded the Sierra Club  to protect it.

I am thankful to the people that had the foresight and the wisdom to work toward preservation of our lands, our parks, our planets… such a long time ago.  I am also thankful to the the people who have that same insight today.  The ones who are trying to do big things to preserve our planet.  Blessings to them all.

With that,  I will leave you with a few quotes filled with vision.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir