Ugh...I got it in the worst way. I just need to be lost for a few days. Usually that feeling is kept in reasonable check because I can walk around at the deer lease and get my dose of "church" from being in the mesquite. However, I decided back in May to take a year off from the lease. So, I haven't needed to put the prep work in for the fall. So, I haven't had a heaping helping of nature in a while. I'm two years removed from the last "guy trip" where we go to some far off western place and get primitive for a few days. I have a week's worth of vacation I can still use. I decided to use that in September and go to Gila Wilderness Area just outside of Silver City, NM. That's still a few weeks away.
I got so restless last weekend I was looking at Google Maps to see how long it would take to hike to Brownfield or Levelland. It's listed at a little more than 9 hours for each, if you're wondering. Now I could do that, but there are two issues;
1). 9 hours there isn't a problem. 9 hours there and then 9 hours back is. And I'm not going to inconvenience anyone to come pick me up because I'm satisfying some mild mental breakdown.
2). Each of those routes are along pretty busy stretches of highway, and I don't want to get squashed by someone not paying attention or people asking me if I need a ride.
I found a new plan. I'm going to start from Wolfforth and get a little headstart west, and then take the back county roads to Smyer (about halfway to Levelland) and then turn around and come back. 4 and a half-ish hours each way. That's a good day's worth of work. Should keep me from climbing out of my skin until I can make it to GNF next month.
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