West Coast Trip, July 23rd, 2018

Day 2

This post is a part of a series on my three and a half week adventure road tripping to the west coast with three of my best friends in the Summer of 2018. I was challenged to write every day of the trip to document the adventure, so I did! My aim was to be as real and raw as possible while I was documenting and writing. Because of this, some days, I was honestly just not interested in writing, so I wrote very matter of fact “this is what we did.”

Check out the first part of the series here: Day 1.

I wrote everything on my phone’s notes app, and below is word-for-word what I wrote each day. Nothing taken out, no elaborations.

As part of the challenge, I also made sure to take at least one picture every day, and each evening when I wrote, I picked one photo that I wanted to feature from that day. Some days it was hard to pick them, and other days I had only one to pick from.

A couple of notes: Each day that I wrote, I wrote the date, where I was writing from, and how many pictures I had taken that day. So the location doesn’t always reflect where the picture was taken.

July 23rd
Colter Bay Campground - Inside Grand Teton National Park
Pictures taken: 14

Started the day leaving Laramie at 4:30am wanting to get to Grand Teton early enough to reserve a spot to camp in. After getting our camping spot, we took a day hike to Hermitage point. Highlight was definitely backpacking and eating lunch with this view. Drawback - The amount of food and baggage that we brought made it difficult to organize and get what we needed out of the car without unpacking the whole vehicle. Going to bed with the tent set up for the first time. Feels warm now, but I’m guessing we will all be cold in the morning. Also, if Noah mispronounces Teton one more time, I’m going to end his life.