What a place I live: Kelowna BC. It amazes me each and every time I hop on my bike, which I love! My son drove us 20 minutes up the Gillard Forest Road, a quick jaunt down the Kettle Valley Railway just past Chute Lake we scurfed onto the Woodwacker trail followed by a sprint to the blocked tressel and not knowingly took a downward descent to Naramata on who knows what ruined road! and BANG we’re in another community of God’s Country! whew!
Well it was planned to be a full route on the KVR, however, Kim and I were both virgin trekers for this trail and we just didn’t figure it out until we got to the bottom of the KVR start from Naramata. The cool thing was that this was a great discovery of a short cut that dropped a huge part of the KVR off for us to get our butts back to Ktown and we still had a fantastic few hours!

Our only expectation today was to arrive in Naramata and get back to Kelowna by 5pm having discovered a trail that I will take my chicks in the sticks riders on September Long.

HOWEVER;
We caught up on life
We found a piece of history
We daydreamed about being in that history
We road in the rain and sun no sleet or hail
We found some challenge on single track
We were amused by ’steep trail’ signs
We cruised on the Kettle Rail
We talked to some people who we knew, really out there in no where
We let her ripp down the road
We sang
We laughed
We were happy
We were there
We found Naramata albeit not as we had intended
….and we were home by 4:45

What is in your backyard or on the outskirts of town. Go there. Don’t think about it. Drop something and take someone and just go. Walk, hike, run, bike, kayak, canoe. Just get there on your own power. Be just there, where you are. Cells and personal devices even ipod’s left behind. Get out of your way and go make it work. It could be ‘right’ now or tonight or this weekend. But get on it. It will do wonders for you if you let it.

I think I do my fair share of it, but everytime it happens I think “this is what it’s about” the now, the moment, find yours!