Day 281
When your growing up, there are things in life you do or watch that seem to stick with as an adult. You develop fond memories around these childhood moments and every time you think, see or in my case watch, it acts like a mental teleportation back to the past. My particular time machine is the tv show M.A.S.H.
I was still pretty young when the show was on the air (1972-1983) and remember mostly sitting in the room with my dad wondering why the one man was wearing a dress in the army. When I became a little older, the show was no longer in production, but I began to watch the reruns religiously before supper during the weekdays. To this day if I come across an episode of M.AS.H on tv, I will sit and watch it.
I believe I was in my late 30’s when I learned the location of the filming site was in a California state park. Thinking that would be a hike I would love to do, I wondered if I would ever get there. Moving forward another 20 years (getting old 😱), when Lori and I began discussing this trip, I marked the state park down to be one of our stops on our journey. Today was the day to complete a twenty year ambition.
