happy halloween

i wish my house looked like this right now

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i know this came out in august so some of you may have seen it. but it is cool enough to watch twice.

jet fuel and traffic lines

Fall always becomes a busy travel time with this year being no exception. In the past month I've been backpacking in Tennessee, celebrating a wedding in Texas, & coming to New Jersey for a family event. I'm planning to write about the very thought-provoking wedding, but for now all I have to say is: I'm ready to spend some time in Georgia.

worst. camping trip. ever.

i was jealous of Popular Blogging Friend's camping adventures so i decided to have my own. let me start by saying, we really did enjoy ourselves. we went to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, which i find quite lovely. probably b/c i basically grew up in those mountains.

a view on the hike

that said, it was probably the worst camping trip i've ever been on. the hike was basically straight up, i got really bad blisters & hurt my leg, it rained all night & the all 2nd day, and we ran into crazy evangelical Christians that left us anti-Mormon notes at our campsite after they saw my BYU visor.

this is how we felt by the end of the trip

it's a good thing that i really like the people i went with b/c we managed to have a great time* despite the overall suckiness.

the view from the top. there are lots of mountains somewhere in that mist

*also, we had a techno dance party in the tent. it lasted 15 seconds (which is turns out to be about 5 seconds longer than any techno dance party should ever last).