As some of you may know, the last few months have been rather busy here in Dominic-land. Between work (blech) and some bad time planning, I’ve felt like it’s all GO GO GO with very little downtime.

This last weekend was no exception – after a full week of work, I spent all day Saturday and Sunday in a photography workshop. 20 pages of notes and a thoroughly overloaded brain later, I was ready for some R&R.

Rick had sent out an email earlier in the week, wondering if anyone wanted to go spend some quality time at Enchanted Rock State Park on the following monday, it being MLK day and all.

So I concocted a notice to my boss, mentioning something about mental health or whatnot… and took the day off.

David, Rick, Rebecca and I got a late start Monday morning, which wasn’t too bad – by the time we arrived in the park, there was almost nobody else there – for a while, I swear we had the park to outselves. It was a bit overcast, and the occational drizzling rain, but that’s not going to stop someone with the mission of “Just wanting to spend the day not in Austin.”

And that we did. We hiked around parts of the park I’d never been to – in the past when I’ve gone out to Enchanted Rock, it’s been solely to climb – so you generally stick to the same parts of the park. This time we headed out on the long loop trail, did some bushwhacking, some shortcuts, some mudding… it was fun.

The drive home was relatively uneventful – we were all stiff and sore from hiking all day, and sitting in Rebecca’s CRV for the drive home didn’t help much….

But all in all, it was a great day to spend a Monday.