Walking down Yosemite One More Time

Dan McNay

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A week of silence, walking, maybe filming, sleeping in the wild, maybe drinking with random folks in same random spot where I've stopped. A night fire. Nothing to dream about except where you are. Bears and deer and whatever else wants to pop in and share your existence. There's few places left where there is no ambition, no god, no responsibilities, no adulthood, nothing but getting up at sunrise when you agree to get up and making some coffee and deciding when to begin walking again. And on a trip that is all downhill. I did this trip before with four teenagers, they are all grown and gone and really happy people I think. I did a different trip years later and came out at Bridal Veil Falls where I found that 3 kids had gone over the falls and died the day before. (This walk comes out at the same place.) I want to write a song about that, this is a way to relive it, reignite it. - Something about the children flying off- they were college kids playing on the the shelf where they weren't supposed to be- There is a reason to relive things. To find a new meaning a way to express it.