This is just a fun summer fantasy -- enjoy! And maybe check out a new hiking area sometime -- you never know what you might find!
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"Looks like it's going to be a perfect summer day," said the television meteorologist. "So get out and enjoy it! Fall is just around the corner!"
"I couldn't agree more," Sam said, talking to the screen. Sam, short for Samantha, had a day off, and was not going to waste it. There was a hiking trail about an hour out of town she wanted to check out, and that was her plan for today. Sam was in her early 30's. She considered herself to be sort of cute, but nothing sensational. She had short golden-brown hair that she tucked behind her ears, fair skin, and deep brown eyes. She kept herself in decent shape, and was a little on the curvy side, with womanly hips and breasts. Her boyfriends had certainly never complained, so she felt pretty good about herself.
She finished tying her sneakers, grabbed the backpack off the table that had a couple of granola bars, water, insect repellant, and few other things that might come in handy if she ended up out on the trail longer than she had planned. She headed out the door, locking it behind her, and found herself humming. A nice afternoon of hiking in peace and quiet was just what she needed.
A little over an hour later, Sam pulled over on the dirt road she was on, and checked her map. This should be it, but the area seemed deserted, and she didn't see a trailhead.
"Well," she said to herself, "I drove all the way here, so I might as well get out and see what's what!" She grabbed her bag off the passenger seat, and locked her car, adding her keys to the bag. She started walking up to the tree line. As she got closer, she saw a slight break in the trees she hadn't noticed from the road. This must be the start of a path. Strange, there didn't appear to be anything there but endless trees, and then there it was!
Sam felt a touch of nervousness in her stomach as she looked around. She was literally in the middle of nowhere, completely alone. She hadn't seen any other cars since she pulled off on the dirt road, and as she listened, she couldn't hear anything. She peered ahead, and ignoring the warning feeling in her stomach, started down the path. She was going in.
There was a definite dirt path on the ground, but is was extremely narrow, surrounded by huge trees crowding in on both sides. Sam walked only a few minutes, when she turned to look behind her. Odd, now she didn't see a break out on to the road at all. She figured the path must have bent slightly and she just hadn't noticed, although she felt like she was walking straight ahead. She pulled the pack up on her shoulders, and kept walking.
The sun beat down on her from overhead. There was no breeze with all the heavy trees blocking any movement, and she felt droplets of sweat drizzle down between her breasts and the back of her neck. Part of her wanted to just turn back, but her stubborn nature wouldn't allow it, and she kept going. For what seemed like twenty or thirty minutes, she kept walking, trees thick on either side of the path, nothing ahead but the narrow dirt track. Her feet were starting to ache.
Just when Sam started to feel a little claustrophobic, with a tickle of panic starting to rear up in the back of her mind, a small way ahead it looked like the path was finally opening up to something. It was all Sam could do to keep herself from running, instead keeping at her quick pace. She burst out of the narrow tree-lined path to a large open field, and stopped.
"My god," she sighed. If someone had a picture of Nirvana or Heaven, this would be it. Overhead was a perfect blue summer sky, with a few high wispy clouds. A slight breeze stirred up, and it drifted over her warm skin. The area in front of her was a grassy field, deep green blades of grass up to her mid-calf, with flowers of every color and shape. She breathed in the flowery perfume seeming to flow toward her. Over to the side, there was a large still pool of water, deep azure reflecting off the lighter blue sky.
As soon as she could breathe again, she ran over to the water. It looked amazing to her after the sweaty walk here. She bent over and reached in with her fingertips. She couldn't stop the shudder of pleasure that ran through her, feeling the cool, refreshing sensation on her skin. Normally she would never jump in a strange body of water, but she was too hot to think about anything else, except how incredible it would feel over her entire body.