It's taller than me
On Labor Day 2011 I embarked on a 720 mile journey to begin were I had started. You can read about it here. This Labor Day I had another unexpected adventure.
Danielle and Amy invited me to go on a Labor Day hike with them to a place called Romero Pools north of Tucson. I brought my roommate Kevin along, but didn’t know the other nine people that went on the hike. Even though we left early in the morning it was incredibly hot. The hike was beautiful and I finally got the cliché picture that every non-Arizonan needs of hugging a cactus. I've seen a lot of these pictures and typically the person "hugging" the cactus isn't even touching it. I made sure to give my cactus a real hug.
"Let's pretend like we're friends." -Amy Flood When we got to the trail head we saw a news truck, ambulances, and fire trucks, all for us. It was a bit overwhelming and a little unnecessary, but they just wanted to make sure we were all okay. They took everyone’s vitals and I had low blood pressure (97 over 70), but I felt fine. They told me to drink more water. Mostly, I was just hungry. I had expected to be home at noon at it was now 5pm and all I’d eaten that day was a bowl of cereal and a granola bar. I counted over 50 people including medics, parks service people, and volunteers who had helped us that day. I had not realized that we were such a big deal. There was even a story about us on the news. Here's a link to the news story. However, in classic news fashion the story had one glaring error. The reporter said that Donald jumped into shallow water, but he had fallen not jumped and he didn't even land in water. The story makes us seem like careless people when in reality we are carefree people. Also, after four years of blogging I just learned how to add captions to my photos. Yes, I'm that tech-savy.
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