Still Seeking Outlet for Some Recreation

I'm still hoping the summer won't be entirely wasted, without any camping or fun. My brother keeps mentioning we should all go camping but I know that won't happen because I know. I did go over to Corvallis and had supper with cat people over there a couple weeks ago and that was enjoyable.

I quit the meetup hiking group. The group leader had said he planned easier hikes than the only one I went to, which was straight up for a good share of the hike. I had fallen way behind. They don't wait on slow people. They're all very much in shape. But subsequent planned hikes were even more straight up terrain, so I quit the group. I need a beginning get in shape type group.

When I lived in Corvallis, I got in shape in the spring by hiking up Bald Hill, sometimes five times a week. But I lived real closeby. There isn't such easy recreation access here in Albany. In fact, there's none to be had, unless you want to walk sidewalks.

I feel it, the isolation from nature, from the woods, being surrounded in concrete. I feel it. It's hard.

I hope to at least go camping once this summer, but I don't want to go alone. So far, I haven't found anyone to go with me.

I try not to become depressed living over here, being so isolated, but worse than isolation, I think, is the lack of recreational access and being totally seperated from nature and the out of doors. It's very depressing.