One of my 25 goals for this year is to visit the Olympic National Forest. Do you realize we really do live in one of the most beautiful places in the world? And we take weeks off to go travel other places, but how often do we give a day just to enjoy our own state? Hike a mountain and take in a spectacular view, drive for a few hours to sit in a forest amidst trees that are older than our great grandparents, older than our cars, our houses, our streets, phones, laptops, cell phones? Older than ANY cell phone. Older than the world that consumes our days. How often do we give one day to float down a river, sit beside a lake, or maybe just fish? I know I don't spend nearly enough time enjoying the beauty of this state. And I want to, in all its different facets of beauty - one of the greatest being the Olympic Forest.