Andrew Sanchez Ex-Blog 2nd Ex

Andrew Sanchez

This Expedition was a fun one, but it was not very exciting. I hate to say that it was boring, but I can’t help how I feel. The only reason that I feel this way is because we didn’t do very much besides school, and hiking.  Though it’s not like this trip was a rollercoaster ride to the moon, I still had fun.

 The first thing that we did was land in El Paso (derp).  We then did the usual Food/Supply buy at Wal-Mart, and drove to the Guadalupe Mountains, located in Texas (not Guadalupe) . This place is constantly windy, due to the clash between the cold air in Canada, and the warm air from The Gulf of Mexico (or somewhere near). This made cooking very hard and the food very cold (the stoves wouldn’t work with all of the wind).

We then hiked to the highest point in Texas, and learned that the highest point of Texas, used to be a coral Reef.  The hike to the top was 4 miles, and the hike to the bottom was also 4 miles (we went down the same way we went up). 

Next day, we went to Carlsbad Caverns National park. At the caverns, we found many interesting Rock formations, like the columns, and mirror lake. Though the caverns were interesting, I would have preferred to have to walkway removed so that I would feel more like and explorer, and less like some tourist who is too lazy to look for things that aren’t shoved into their face.

After that “adventure” we vacated the Guatemalan Mountains, and drove to another state park, which happened to have a natural spring complete with a high dive.

We then drove to Big Bend national park, Where each of us drank a liter of soda (I Choose to drink Root beer, for its delicious, and classical taste (I’ve always been a root beer lover)), so that we could fill them up on our Ex-pack hiking trip(there was no other water except for the water we brought on our backs(2 liters)).  

When we escaped the Big Bend national park, we went to a “hot” spring. There we swam to Mexico, across the Rio Grande, where I stood (where I got in trouble because I stood(we weren’t supposed to stand)).

The next day we took a day off to do just school, and the next day we were off to the airport (we had to wake up at 3:00 am by the way) and from there, back to Balsam, where we were met with a flurry of snow.