Day 23: (campfires and sex jokes)

As you may have read, the internet is difficult here.

We decided to go camping, in a spur of the moment decision. Katherine, Kevin, Randi and I packed up and got out of the dorm in about an hour, everything packed up and ready to go. We headed down to the Grand Tetons, drove through and into Jackson, bought food, then turned around and camped at the same place that I camped at a couple weeks ago. Then we set up camp, talked for hours in my tent, went to sleep, and trekked up the Cascade Canyon in the rain the next day in the rain and snow.

The more interesting fact is how close I’ve gotten to all the people here. I’ve spent the last two days with three people in the mountains, and I’ve gotten to know them so well. The are amazing people, each with their own incredible stories. Talking to them as long as did I opened them up. We know incredible things about these people I haven’t known for more than a couple months. Even with the sky opening up above us and releasing all forms of precipitation, our spirits were never dampened. We are close. We aren’t the only ones, obviously. I think that everyone here is getting closer as the days come along. Despite the amount of people here, we are all getting to know one another better and better, and it’s because we’re all so different that we are getting so close.

I feel like I might be getting redundant. I had some amazing dreams the last few nights. I looked up at the sky before I went to sleep and got lost in the nothing. I wrote some songs and poems on some yellowing sheets of paper and remembered the past. I woke up in the sky, in the clouds, on the earth that was enveloped by mist.

We felt like legends.