This is Day 2 of my wilderness trip. By this time, I will be in transit to the base camp, where we will be doing our last-minute preparations and testing before we ‘take the plunge’ as they say. Every little consideration for every potential problem or issue will now have to take a back seat as we try to get some rest for an early morning start.
The quote for today is from Robert Frost, probably one of the most epic poems ever written and is one that always rings through my mind as we take our first steps into the wild.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
