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We’ve all lost something in our travels. Last fall I was out hiking on a local trail and feeling good enough to jog down it after about 90 minutes of strenuous up/down hiking. Well, my legs couldn’t keep up with my mind and I took a spill off the trail and lost my sunglasses. I’ve been back on that same trail at least 3 times since that spill and always searched for a few minutes for the missing sunglasses, but never found them.

Until yesterday.

I haven’t been very active the last 2 months, so I took the reverse route on this trail thinking it was easier (that is debatable), anyway, as I was going up in the place where I had tripped previously, I stopped for about 2 minutes and searched. This time the glare of the sun off the frames was just perfect and I saw the lenses. Leaned over, picked them up and they appear to be no worse for being outdoors through 2 major snowfalls and sub-20 degF temperatures multiple times. Actually, they didn’t look bad at all.

Now if I could only get on the same airplane where I’ve left lots and lots of sunglasses in the seat backs. ;)

Anyway, it was a beautiful day for a hike, the sun was shining, temps in the mid 50s, the views from the peak were fantastic AND I found something I’d lost months ago. I couldn’t imagine any way it could have been better. I’m easily amused, but you know that already.