#mountiains

A sea of clouds on the Appalachian Trail

Pulau Padar, Komodo: @craighowes

She’ll find me one day, probably lost in the mountains, somewhere off the beaten trail. I’ll be looking from the compass to the map, then up at her. She’s going to laugh at me being a dork, but it’ll make us both smile, even though I’m nervous. And lost. She’ll have a John Muir or poetry book in her bag, and I’ll invite her for a cup of campfire coffee, after she accompanies me to an abandoned ruin of some sort (the reason I am of course lost in the first place). We’ll hike up one side and down the other. Come night time, we’ll be sitting on the top of a mountain, underneath a sky filled with more stars than my eyes can hold. And she’ll fall in love with the way I fall in love; with her, with everything. She’ll fall in love with the way the Earth itself puts light in my eyes. And then, I’ll ask her to dance. 

Pack yourself your toothbrush, dear. Lets leave this town.

Capitol State Forest, WA

Australia, sunset