The Hiking Group
Anyone can go hiking for a hike, but you sign up for a hiking group for the people. I signed up for a MeetUp hiking group a few weeks ago and went on the first group hike a couple weeks later. It was a 7.5 mile, 4-hour strenuous hike. The average age of the group was pushing 50 years old. We briefly meet in the parking lot and immediately start the hike...no real introductions. As I'm going along the desert trails and rocks I'm quietly listening to the chatter around me while feeling the intense burning in my thighs and I am HIT with the feeling that I'm in a movie. I'm surrounded by very familiar personalities and conversations. I later realize that all these movies I've seen where the characters are in a certain situation and all their life experiences are pouring trying to figure things out as a group is happening in my midst. My case is this: it starts as a couple of us get ahead of the group and get a little off-track, it's the typical personalities, th...