6-20-2026 Travel day

 Today we had to drop off Juan, one of our mentors on this trip which was very sad because he was genuinely cool but we did pick up a new mentor Salvador. We went to Starbucks in Pasco but Juan and the guys had to go before us, so me, Lovey, Leah, and Phabian stayed behind and packed our stuff but also all the communal chairs and the breakfast stuff, which seemed kind of easy but then we had to pack stuff onto the truck and play a little Tetris. It felt like a long day but to be fair I kind of chugged the coffee that was left in the French press because obviously I couldn't let it go to waste so I was wired for a really long ride to Pasco, but we did play some jams so it wasn't to bad and I did keep Monet awake the whole way over. We went to Starbucks to update our data and to post blogs so I'm mostly caught up besides some blank spaces in my data, but the day went on without it. We drove all the way to Toppenish to fill up on gas before we took off towards Glenwood, we had to meet Jessica in Goldendale so I guess we did go there first, then after we got to Goldendale we got ice cream and waited patiently for her to get there and when she did we ended up heading out to Glenwood. 

We got here to this cute little gas station and we waited for Corbin, which felt like forever maybe because I was wired all morning and crashed hard on the way here. Then we headed to where we would be camping and we set up all our tents, but then the adventures started. We all kind of walked around checking everything out, but me and Lovey walked literally everywhere and found so many spots to sit and chill but more importantly we were looking for a good spot to maybe swim after a while or the next day. We walked across so many trees, some shook some didn't but all of them stayed intact for us and I only got a little scrape on my leg from one tree. After a while we ended up back at camp and of course Gavin asked if we had fun so we told him Dallas and Leah about this pool that we liked and we took them over there. We wandered for a while but we all came back little by little, Monet at the time was making us fajitas and I am a texture person so I couldn't finish after I ate one to many onions. Overall, it was a good first day at Glenwood and we just got started. I forgot to mention that Corbin gave us a little speil and told us about how he was also a Heritage student and told us about what he is doing now, his own research and is trying to find people and funding for it. Stay hydrated and enjoy my pictures. 










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