Day 4. Enchantments 0 miles

Welp, just another day at our mountain retreat. Today wasn’t as exciting, or warm as yesterday, but it did feel good to just cruise at camp and not worry about anything. While it was raining in the morning, Claire and I counted all the mosquito bites on her body. 57. And those were just the bites that we could physically see and count. I’m guessing she had a few more yesterday. 57 mosquito bites people!!!


Nick with his new patented design of a wide-shouldered, armless poncho. 

It rained for some time in the morning, but since we were planning a swim-day today, Michael, Nick, Paul, and myself jumped in the water at the first sighting of sun breaking through the clouds.










Michael going for it. Off the tree nonetheless!

We ate, napped, ate, talked, swam, ate, played Farkle and Contact, talked and ate again. I don’t think that Claire or I have ever been on a trip where our tent remained in the same spot for more than two nights. It’s definitely been cool to have a home-base for a bit instead of packing all our stuff up every morning and setting it up again each night! 


Sun Peninsula at around 5pm



It’s gotten very very cold and windy compared to the other days. Everyone keeps taking tent breaks to warm up on and off. Right now Claire and I are warming up in our tent while Nick is boiling water and will be bringing us hot chocolate soon! What did we do to deserve this!

~~~~~~~~1.5 hrs later~~~~~~~~~~

Wow, the wind really really has picked up! Claire and I haven’t had winds like this in this tent yet. Since there’s dry dust all over the wind keeps whipping it under the rain fly and straight onto us and our sleeping gear. Gonna be dirty tomorrow! Everyone is trying to hunker in their tents (poor Nick and Megs only have a tarp! Dinner and chores have been brutal tonight because of the cold and wind, but Claire and I are finally in our tent safe and sound (but not warm or clean, hahaha). It’s looking like a big rain cloud rolling in, and since we crammed our tents in a bunch of tiny spots (between logs and rocks), most of us don’t have our rain fly’s staked completely out and taught. Cross your fingers that we don’t get flooded if it rains! 

8:00pm, night night! Thanks for reading! 


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  1. Dona ZavislanAugust 7, 2020 at 9:05 PM

    Sorry, Claire, about all those mosquito bites. They have always loved you. :-( Weather forecast looks good.

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