On the Laguna Meadow trail in Big Bend, on the way back down to the basin, something occurred to me. I got a hiking merit badge for doing a 10-mile hike in the mountains when I was in the Boy Scouts. I should get a badge for doing it again 60 years later! (Yes, a mind can wander anywhere while hiking for hours, right?)
Next challenge: Imagine up a governing body to award me this honor. Man Scouts??? Maybe I need to take another hike and find where my mind wanders to next…