DESTINATION TRANQUILITY
Virginia's Shenandoah & Blue Ridge Mountains...
where the act of standing still leaves you breathless

"This land belongs to the people,
some of them are living,
some of them are dead,
but most of them
have not been born yet."
Anonymous Native American

"There is guidance for each of us,
and by lowly listening,
we shall hear the right word.
Certainly there is a right for you
that needs no choice on your part.
Place yourself in the middle
of the stream of power and wisdom
which flows into your life.
Then, without effort, you are impelled
to truth and to perfect contentment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Swimming Hole," George Washington National Park, May 1999

The Reflecting Pool

"I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life
and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"...Always in the big woods
when you step off alone into a new place
there will be, along with curiosity and excitement,
a little nagging of dread.  It is the ancient fear of the unknown,
your first bond with the wilderness you are going into..." 
Author Unknown