I was listening to the Iowa Sportsman podcast about shed hunting, I was thinking I really don’t spend enough time in the wilderness. Living in the city, it’s just kind of a bother to fire up my pickup truck, invest the fuel and mileage to get out to the wilderness, especially in the cold of the winter, to walk the miles to search for sheds and see more of the woods.

I’d be a better outdoorsman if I actually spent more time in wilderness then I do. Just more time walking around, exploring. I guess I do spend a fair amount of time in the summer months, although probably too much of the time is spent in swimming holes or paddling or traveling, and not enough time just walking in the woods, actually observing.

I really should spend more time in the wilderness, but traveling is expensive, and money spent now is money not available for the future. But maybe this summer, I will rededicate myself to investing more time to simple walks in the woods, more time by the fishing hole, and more time just observing nature — and less time running from point a to point b.