What place can I go to for a few hours and escape the city? A mountain. One nice fall afternoon Denny and I hiked a mountain in Qingdao, China. It was the perfect antidote for the feeling of a mini vacation and a dose of “fresh air”.
Below is a photo journal of our hike.
This picture shows part of the bay of the Yellow Sea.
My husband and I. I love the timer feature. No one else was hiking that day. The mountain was ours. A woman has to wonder, “Did my husband secretly rent it out for the afternoon?”
Do I have any botanist reading my blog? What kind of berries are these? I joked with Denny that they were the Nightlock berries from The Hunger Games.
This mountain had German dugouts that were placed there for a war.
We were “making plans to make plans”. What movie is that line from? We had a discussion of planning to meditate on the past year and making goals for 2013.
This is a view looking at the trail we hiked.
This was the mountain we hiked.
I carried down a large tree branch and jammed it into our cab to decorate our home for Christmas. It was fun seeing all the facial expressions while we drove by.
If you need a dose of a mini vacation seek the peacefulness of a mountain!
