Music Connects Us/26,463 steps

10 years of listening to the Vinyl Cafe on the CBC on saturday and/or sunday mornings when i am home.  it was 10 years ago in September when i wanted to see and photograph the Big Sky of Montana.  i took the long way from Seattle to Bainbridge Island to Orcos Island to Vancouver to Banff and Lake Louise to Calgary to Montana. it was somewhere in British Columbia where i first heard The Vinyl Cafe on my rental car's radio.  i still remember the first "Dave Story" that hooked me.  it was about Galway the Cat. i have had the good fortune of going to two Vinyl Cafe Christmas Shows and getting to meet Stuart McLean, the show's host and storyteller. and as coincidence would have Stuart and i have the same birthday. more about that possibly but for sure i will add some photos from my long walk as i wander up and down a few hills, along the coast back to the beach and then home again.  i was listening to another program on the CBC as i was eating a little breakfast.  i am not sure of the program but it had something to do with music and spirituality.  i heard "music connects us". i liked that idea. perhaps a new blog title would be "musiconnects".

i was recently asked the meaning of my first blog's title, So Far.  i think the explanation is on my other webpage that i have failed to visit and update in a quite a long time. So Far means this my life so far.  and this is my life with so far to go. and now my backpacked is packed (Tony is inside, and a peach, apple and banana) my walking shoes are waiting by the door.

and i have so far to go today . . .

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home again.  26,463 steps later.  about 12 and half miles later. here are some moments from today.  it was an amazing day for clouds, flowers, peacocks, cats, mailboxes, trees, rattlesnakes, pelicans, rocks, sunshine, shadows, and more and less. 

thinking of Jade Mountains