What to Write?!? Apparently, More on Writing and Hiking

I've been at a loss lately on what to write about. I know I could recite more of the writing tips from Anne Lamott or about how I don't know what to do for my birthday next weekend even though I have a few ideas. I want to do something with family and another something with friends and I always try to do new things each year. Nothing on my mind strikes me as worth writing about except the tips I read from  Bird by Bird so here goes.
Lamott wrote about how we can gain a lot of insight about ourselves as we write but she also stripped away much of the romanticism we like to place on it and on getting published. I'm very grateful that she does that because as with hiking a trail like the AT, you won't get very far into your first book if you've over-romanticized the process. When people think it's just a walk in the woods with only pleasant scenery, comfortable weather and perfect terrain, and when they believe they should pack deodorant, you question how far they're going to get. If I look at writing and hiking for six months in the same light, I can see that writing with the goal of getting published could be plausible but that it would help if I didn't think about the end result day in and day out because during my trip I very seldom thought about Katahdin and how I just had to see it soon or else... I just accepted the hiking and camping lifestyle as my new way of life until ...whenever. I never concerned myself with how long I was taking, I never felt the need to push harder so I could finish sooner and the Virginia Blues were not a thing for me. I couldn't have cared less that I was still in Virginia after a month, every day was a new day and they each brought new wonders every time the sun came up. The only problems I had with VA was having that unknown awful illness while scaling down Dragon's Tooth after hiking for 12+ miles and not having a view from McKafee Knob or Tinker Cliffs.

Anyway, here's hoping that my writing's worth reading. If I could get published great, if not, still great.  I've got this silly blog at the very least.