Feeling the need to replenish my outdoor-life battery, Piper and I went to Tomoka State Park for a hike last week. It's tremendous the amount of power a couple of hours in nature has on my state of mind. Here's the photo-story. First stop: fishing pier off the group camp area.  Upon arrival, the park attendant gave me a map that looked like it had originally been printed in 1992 and the shape of the park was hand drawn. Like any 90's classic photocopy, the words and pictures had seemingly no scale relationship to each other, which is how I wound up parking absolutely nowhere near the nature trail we were there to hike. Luckily, that meant we got to take a tiny glimpse at the water from this fishing pier before the real hike began. I love that almost all of my hikes get to be with this little shenanigator. If you have to hike for awhile to get to the trail, this is a decent kind of road to hike. It was firm with a sandy top layer, little in the way of automotive traffic, sha...