Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to show you the variety in weather conditions on the trails at Mt. Rainier National Park.
spring
winter
Oh yeah, we also saw a freaking bear.
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The variety we’ve experienced on this trip has been incredible. For example, when we woke up in Sequoia National Forrest at about 7,000 feet on Thursday morning it was 26˚ and our tent was covered with ice. By 1:00 PM later that day, we were playing frisbee in 70˚ weather by a beach along the coastline at about 30 feet above sea level. There’s a ton of other crazy extremes that we’ve survived (such as bean tacos at a beefless taco bell to eating sword fish steaks along the coastline at Nepenthe).
Now we’re up against our craziest extreme yet - readapting to city life. So far the transition has been fairly smooth with only a few rough edges (i.e., all our clothes smell like firewood and we still eat without using our hands). Wish us luck.
Also: be prepared for the the most awesomest facekick in history coming soon…
Danny face-kicks Matt in style.
Matt face-kicks Paul on Moro rock… nothing like a face-kick with a view!
OK… here’s a pics:
Our conversation with the cashier went something like this…
Cashier: Welcome to Taco Bell… We are out of beef.
Us (in unison): You’re out of beef?!
Cashier’s Manager: We are out of beef…
Cashier: We have steak…
Us: OK, we’ll have 4 #4s and 1 #7… with steak.
Cashier: I have 4 #4s and 4 #7s with steak..
Matt: No, 1 #7… 4 #4s…
Cashier: OK
Us (contemplative): What are we going to get on our extra taco if there is no beef?
Cashier: You can substitute steak or chicken for an extra 1.50…
Us: Substitute for what? There’s no beef anyway… can we just get the steak?
Cashier: No… it’s an extra cost to substitute steak/chicken for no beef.
Brad: Let’s substitute beans (brilliant)
Cashier: OK… we can do that… so it’s 7 #4s and 4 #7s…
Brad: No… it’s 82 #4s…
….
(snickering)
….
Cashier: OK… drive around…
That was a 10-15 minute conversation… many things were left out (including the fact that he asked for our drinks like 3 times).
P.S. Bean tacos are a bad idea…
Because if you do, you could possibly decipher the stream of annoyance emitting from our alarm clock in the hotel during all hours of the night. Also, the AC unit was abuzzin’ like some attack plane in WWII. Did we mention we consumed Taco Bell right before bed? And that we had to substitute beans for meat on our soft tacos?
Yeah, that turned out well.