Day 24. The one on which I didn't have internet or energy.

Day 24. (the one where I didn't keep good notes, so i'll just try to remember as best I can)

Today was a day of travel, after the arrival of all of the remaining summer staff last night we slept at a handful of houses in torington and when morning rolled around we ate breakfast, and packed the trailer. While most were left to help pack or make sure their stuff got packed, I was dispatched to camp to feed horses for the last time for a few weeks. It is not a very well kept secret that although I do enjoy horses a great deal I don't always appreciate the fact that it is near impossible to toss hay to horses without getting little pieces of it ALL over you. Feeding went well and myself, jenni (the highest ranking member of our expedition) and hunter quickly completed our to-do lists and headed back to town.

Once we got back in town it was a simple process to throw our stuff into the trailer and then everyone piled into the van and we hit the road. Our van's name right now is chadmoe. At some point in the past he had been named moe and that's a good name for him... however when he's a bad van and tries very hard to overheat we prefer to call him chad because that's an easier name to be angry with. (there was some debate as to why but it was generally agreed upon without any great discussion otherwise) While rolling down the road a few of us had a discussion about books that we like and our favorite authors, when we were doneish the remainder of the van had fallen asleep. I think we might have been boring them or some such... meh.

Anyway, last few highlights and then I'll move on to some sort of rant.

-We had low air in a tire, normally this means stopping at a service station and filling it up. Instead it required stopping at a service station, zach fixing the service station air compressor, and thennn filling up the tire.

-We had lunch at a little picnic shelter called "the castle" it's an old CCC project and if I should ever come into a LARGE sum of money I think I want one attached to the back of my house.

-near the end of our drive we had a little exercise where you say something nice about whomever's turn it is. I was surprised at how much people had to say about each other and think the general response was "yep, it was all true. but they lied when they were talking about me". nevertheless it was an entertaining time and we'll have to return the favor to our directors (who conveniently excused themselves with the excuse of "we're heeeere")

We arrived in casper and set up site at the eagle ridge ranch where we would spend a large portion of the next day (and arguably the night in between) working on putting in a ton of fenceposts for a corral. It was nice to see the entire scott family again (I was a ranch-hand there for 3 weeks last summer) and I was reminded of many good memories I had packed into such a short time last year.

At this point we went to sleep. Or rather I did... or tried to. 4am was coming far too swiftly for my taste.

-Nick
p.s. I'll do my 'rant' in the day 25 post probably.