Marion Vermazen retired a year ago from working in high tech in the Bay Area. She’s been living in Reno, writing on her blog and taking a lot more High Sierra hikes. She reflects on the goals she set when she gave up the grind:

” 5. Blogging – I want to get to the point where I blog about interesting things every day. I want to improve my writing and blogging skills and I think the best way to do that is to just do it regularly. I also want to redesign my blog and explore some of the technology I’ve gotten behind on since I started my current job.

I guess it goes without saying I am still blogging. I really do love it. I’m still figuring out how to be interesting, how to improve my writing skills and how to improve my blog. I still need to get better about blogging regularly and I still want to do some redesign and focus. My blogging like my life is a work in progress.

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” 8. Hiking – My goal is to do at least one long hike a week. ”

Since moving to Reno and joining the Sierra Canyon hiking group I have been hiking twice a week and loving it. It certainly takes time and I didn’t hike very much when I worked. Now that I have the time it is awesome to explore all the beautiful places to hike especially in the Sierras west of Reno.

Her latest hike: Mount Lola.

A Web site for exercising the brain and hikes to exercise the rest … see, this is why everybody needs a hiking blog.