One extra loop. One unexpected turn. And suddenly, my familiar old hiking trail was completely enchanted. Come walk with me... I’m beginning to think there may be a little magic happening in these Santa Cruz Mountains. Yesterday, Ghost and I were finishing our hike. We wanted to take just another quarter mile to reach our two-mile goal, so we took one extra loop. We came around a corner… And there was a man standing on top of a huge boulder, waving an enormous bubble wand and

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