"I am finding new strength in myself I may always have had it and just didn't know because I'd never had to call on it.
To the measure that she confronted danger, she was becoming bolder: she had lost her fear of fear. Her fears had dissipated in the awesome grandeur of this landscape. She realized that she had lost the feeling of panic that had lain curled in the pit of her stomach like a rat, threatening to gnaw her entrails. She was awakened one morning by the whinnying of her horse with the full light of dawn in her face, surrounded by tall sequoias that, like centenary guards, had watched over her sleep, by gentle hills, and, far in the distance, purple mountaintops at that moment she was filled with an atavistic happiness that was entirely new.
“However, in those last months of riding across the golden landscape of California she felt she was flying free, like a condor.
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