I had a doctors appointment in Fort Collins today so Cassie and I both took the day off.  I spend a lot of time working in the basement of a big concrete square building in front of  computer screens.  So I am always surprised at my reaction to the “outside world” on days off.  Just about anything and everything seems amazing to me.  From the amount of people driving around (pretty normal) to helicopters flying around with the President inside (not so normal).

Obama’s Helicopter (I think)

They had the whole highway shutdown and I could only get to within a block of where my appointment was, go figure.  Cassie and I decided to just walk across the shutdown highway.  It was the right choice and took less than 5 minutes.

After the appointment we decided to get some lunch.  Since we were out and about we didn’t want to eat somewhere we had been before so we went to the Taj Mahal.  Not the real one of course, it’s a restaurant in Ft Collins.  The flavors in Indian food are much different than what our palates are accustomed to, which is what we were after.  So we ended up eating too much..lol.

lunch

After lunch we went for a short walk down the Poudre Trail in Fort Collins before heading home. When we were walking down the trail, it split off into two paved ones and a dirt one. Cassie said, “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” I didn’t know what she was talking about, so she said to look it up. I looked it up and found Robert Frost’s poem on my phone.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Just then we saw an awesome huge tree that we would not have seen had we taken the well-worn trail. It was pretty cool.

Cassie in the Tree. How cool is this tree!?

I work almost every weekday and simply don’t see the outside world often.  Even something as simple as a doctors visit can turn into a fantastically different day and an opportunity to experience something different in life.  Weird, I know, but I am ready to take the road less traveled for I truly do believe that will make all the difference.