After spending the weekend in Yosemite with my 15-year-old son and his friend, it really dawned on me that I haven’t emphasized spending time in nature enough on this website. Being ‘free’ to explore in the wilderness and have experiences in nature is so vital for all aspects of life. To find the time in your life to visit parks or other aspects of nature and just ‘play’ is worth more than anything you can accomplish in the gym or in an office.
Below are just a few of my favorite shots, but I’ve posted all the photos here. The combination of sun, water, and hiking allowed me to put up my best sleep scores in months without any hacks, and I felt incredibly refreshed. Having two youths around to experience this with certainly didn’t hurt either!
I have a bunch of formal website updates to make and hope to get to them soon. Thank you all for the great feedback so far; I can’t say enough about how meaningful the e-mails have been since the launch last week
Wonderful pictures! Swimming in the snow melt waters is quite an adventure–hopefully not too chilly. Shouldn’t Yosemite highlight include all of the lush green colors in the valley though?
Exactly why we need to protect our incredible national parks, forests, environmental treasures from becoming privatized and deregulated! Thank goodness for Teddy Roosevelt’s vision!