Yes, when you’re out hiking and camping, you want a delicious, healthy, rib-sticking meal to fortify yourself and enhance your experience. But the key word here is “experience,” and eating should only be a small part of your wilderness adventure. On an ideal excursion into the forest, you’ll see things you’ve never seen, smell things you’ve never smelled, hear things you’ve never heard and feel things you’ve never felt.
You just might tap into your inner spirit and feel a connection with adventurers who traveled these paths centuries before you. You might breathe in the fresh air and feel a renewal of your soul, a connection with the earth that sometimes city dwellers have lost. Somehow the sky seems bluer, the water clearer, the stars brighter and closer.
This might not be a bad time to reassess your life’s goals and find a new purpose, without the distractions of traffic, technology and crowds. The serenity may assist you in solving a problem that’s been vexing you. Communing with nature has been known to increase creativity. You may just come up with your best idea ever while treading the wilderness trails. Or maybe you’ll just wind down, take a break, catch a breath.
Perhaps being out in nature will help you to stop thinking for a while. It could aid in clearing out a mind that’s going a mile a minute and put you in the calm zone. The point really is to gear up, get out and make the most of your time in the woods. Breathe, exercise, relax, take it all in joyfully and create memories that will live with you forever.
Part of that involves eating wonderful meals that only add to the overall experience. But only a small part. Just open your mind and heart and enjoy.
