More adventures yesterday

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Had a crazy day in San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay yesterday. I went because I needed to take my iMac to the Apple Store as early as possible so I could get it back today. I was also supposed to get a smog check for my car at 1:30. I was trying to decide the best way to kill time in between 11 and 1:30. I told the Apple tech guy I was thinking of going to Morro Bay. He said he lived there, and he told me where to go to take good pictures. I had just gotten back to my car when he came running out to tell me they had a lot of computers ahead of mine and wouldn't have mine done until Monday. I looked really upset and told him I live in North County, the person I scheduled with last week said if I had my computer in by morning they could get it back to me before 7 at night . I told him I really needed it for work all weekend. So he told me to wait five more minutes. (I knew the job would only take half an hour ). He came running back and said they'd put mine ahead of a couple of others and would get it to me today. I thanked him and drove to Morro Bay, but I'd forgotten I was supposed to take a different road than the one I was on to Los Osos. I kept driving anyway, figuring I'd get to the coast somehow. I finally found a road with a sign that said it went to Morro Bay State Park so I took it. But along the way I saw something I wanted to photograph, so I stopped to do some walking there. Then I continued on and took some pictures of the rock and some of the boats and buildings before going on to the state park. That' s where I took the video I'm linking to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUwMevOEJxg (I do not gain anything from your viewing this link.) Finally I decided I'd better take the car in, so I did that, and then got some lunch. I thought the rain we had last night was over, so after lunch I headed to Costco, but first I wanted to check out a trail I'd just found out about at the other end of the parking lot. I couldn't see the trail head I'd heard about to get on the mountain, and it started to rain a bit, so I decided to skip the walk and shop. As I was just about to get out of the car it started to pour, and while I was deciding if I wanted to run for it, it started to hail. I decided to read in the car until the rain and hail got lighter or stopped. That took about 20 minutes. Then I did my shopping. When I got out, it was still light and the rain had stopped. So I went looking for the trail again. I took a rather round about way to get up to the foot of the mountain just a bit --high enough to shoot the mountain behind the buildings across the street from Costco. What I hadn't counted on was the mud. The trail looked like a compact dirt road, but it turned out to be clay mud. I got about two pounds of mud on each shoe. I could hardly walk, so I found a sharp stick and kept scraping the mud off after every few steps. I finally got down the hill and tried to walk on grass and weeds. When I found a good clump of weeds, I'd use it to scrape more mud off. Then I tried to rinse the bottoms off in the puddles, because I had to get the mud off to drive home. When I managed to get most of it off, I walked around the corner to the Home Depot entrance, figured after the rain they'd have a door mat there, and I was right. So I used that to get my shoes in shape to drive home. I'm wondering why I do such stupid things. First a woman my age should probably not be out trying to take unknown paths after a rain, half an hour before dark alone. What do you think of this sort of behavior? Is it too risky? Do you have any advice or me? I was at all times visible to anyone who might have been in that part of the Home Depot parking lot, except no one else was. I did get back to the parking lot before it got dark. I did have my cell phone in my pocket. I seem to be willing to do almost anything for a picture. What is your opinion of my spontaneously seeking these kind of small adventures when I'm by myself?