Saturday, October 18, 2014

10/16/14

Day 62
October 17, 2014
            I’m lounging out in a rocking chair at some sort of porch lodge in Curry Village, Yosemite National Park. Most of the group has wandered back to camp to score some sleep, but I’m enjoying the free time here and sort of pretending I’m actually vacationing here rather than walking to this campground to sneak wifi and the good showers. This is real survival right? Well, for a 20 something year old going for a minor in outdoor leadership. For those of you back home… sneaking wifi and scoring the good showers means heading into a better campground, or maybe not better but more modern, to pick up signal so that we can get onto the internet or even just find outlets to charge up so we can knock out our homework. The scoring good showers part relates to Yosemite mostly so far because everywhere else we’re either blessed with decent ones or we’re casually going a week without one. The other day we ran into an Outward Bound program while shadowing Nature Bridge outdoor education program and they were a few days shy of completing their 60 day course… we were on day 61 of 120. ECOEE might not be as recognized as other programs, but we’re just as good or better, we work hard, we travel plenty, and we’re lead by the best. We’re something else, we’re something great.

-Greg Strobel

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