The Mountain Trip
All I ever wanted was a big, strong man to make me feel safe. When you arrived, I felt like I began to soar. One of the things I always wanted to do was to go to Iceland to walk the Lava Fields and Switzerland to see the Alps. I had never been brave enough, but I feel unstoppable with you at my side.
We first stayed in Iceland for 10 days, swimming in the blue lagoon and walking the lava fields. We saw the Geothermal power plant Hellisheidi. I marveled at this clean energy engineering marvel. Using the planet's own heat to spin a turbine seems so simple, yet so Star Wars-age tech all at the same time. We saw the waterfall Gullfoss and spent plenty of time walking around the wilderness.
It’s incredible to me how safe it felt, and it is. Is this all I ever wanted in life? A brilliant, beautiful, and strong man to go live in the fields of Iceland with? To stare into the sky, look at all the stars and aurora, and relax as the sun sets early or the days when it never fully rises?
Most people would find that quite depressing, but I find it incredibly relaxing. Darkness is when all my senses can easily be focused and not scattered, as I often feel during bright daylight. I’d only known people to grumble about dark, cold, and quiet life, myself included. But was this maybe all my soul needed to feel at ease? A life of simple, quiet love. It got me thinking. A quiet…
