Come Journey with Us

Come journey with us. Join us as we hike trails through the wilderness where you encounter nature the way it was intended and you meet the animals with whom you share this fragile blue ball hurling through space.  Look into the eyes of kiááyo and the face of áwatoyi.  Listen to the warning call of pica as she is forced to go higher and higher looking for a place to live and care for her young.  Look closely at the wildflower that provides food as well as beauty, enjoy the colorful lichen and admire the might trees upon which we so greatly depend.

  Ride with us as we bike remote roads devoid of the annoying noise and choking fumes of motorized vehicles. Peddle silently through forest and meadow, along raging rivers and babbling brooks. Ride with us as we push higher up the mountain, taking time to stop and savor the magnificent view of a land almost totally undisturbed and unmarred by human presence.

Glide on a quiet lake surrounded by mountains whose waters are so pristine they are the cleanest water left on the planet and so quiet that the scenery reflects before you. Dip your paddle into the water and with a gentle push slip into a cove where you can rest as you watch for animals coming to the bank to drink. Feel your oneness with all that is around you. Feel your spirit soar.

Climb a mountain with us and, standing on the top experiencing the exhilaration of physical exertion and achievement, look out over the world and know why you are an environmentalist at heart.  Sense the strength and timelessness of the mountains as you stand in awe of the green and red rock or stramatolites billions of years old. Here you feel safe.  Here you feel peace.

Drop into the depths of an ocean or a lake and explore a world so few have ever seen. Watch creatures who have existed long before any creature roaming the land.  This is the source of all life - water and oxygen. As animals we can go days without food but the time we can go without water is measured in hours and the time without oxygen in seconds.

Come join with us and explore the natural world, our home, to which we have become strangers. Come journey with us and sense the world to which we really belong. It is a journey of exploration that will excite your senses and boggle your mind.  It is a journey of discovery that nature is not a place apart but our true home.  It is a journey that will make you uncomfortable as you look around at what we as a species have done yet a journey that will offer peace and purpose. Come join us on the journey back . . . back to our relationship with the nature around us, with animals and plants, mountains and deserts, streams and oceans, that truly define what we are.

Humanity is lost.  It feels lost. It expresses its lostness in books, movies and songs. Ironically the answer to our lostness, the way back to our true nature, is what is being destroyed in the name of "advancement" and "progress".  We have but to drop our stainless steel shell which protects us from the reality of the world around us and we will renew our lives with nature. We will find who we really are and we will find peace.  We will see what we have forgotten or deserted or forsaken, and we will know true strength.  We will return to our rightful place in the world and know true life.

At any national or state park, forest, wilderness, recreational area, go up to a ranger and simply say "show me the way home."   The journey is magnificent. Arriving home is beyond anyone's ability to describe. Come journey with us.  Come, let's go home.