Walking the trails brought me back to when I was growing up in Illinois where I was such a outdoors man I never left home without my pocket knife. While growing up in Illinois as a young man my family was all about getting out in the wilderness and hiking trails. My uncle who owns 40 acres of wildlife refuge in central Illinois has five different trails that run through his woods. As we walked in the woods that is all that I kept thinking of. I even thought that as a kid I would have been going from tree to tree in that bad boy because thats what we used to do in Illinois, no joke, I would start at the top of one side of the tree line and boom scurry across the the canopies and be on the other side of the woods before you knew it. This trip I think has regenerated my love for the woods and all that was going through my mind was that I wanted to walk along the Appalachian Trail one day and walk in Yosemite National Forrest. I love our nature on campus and am proud of how beautiful it is and I know that whenever I come back to this campus later in life I can always be proud of how it is in a sense more natural.
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