The best summer of my life to date was Summer 2014. I had just graduated high school, and I was looking forward to starting college in the fall. I spent the summer lounging on a hammock in the sun, and reading some amazing books. I can still remember how I felt that summer, how colors were brighter, and how wide open the world seemed.
Even as I was in it, I knew how precious that summer was. I would never have anything like it again – the freedom of having no responsibilities, no worries, only a to-do list completely checked off, and a fully stocked bookshelf.
This past October has been the gift of a lifetime. This month was filled with so much joy: I laid eyes on and set foot in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, I felt the least and most homesick I’ve felt since moving away, the first time I went to Glacier National Park, my first time stepping in the Yellowstone River, and most importantly, the first time like I’ve felt like a human being in who knows how long. I’ve made actual friends. I can actually feel the life being breathed back into me, and I didn’t even know how much of it I was missing.
So, all in all, it’s been a good few weeks.
Yellowstone River, MT 
St Mary’s Lake, Glacier Nat’l Park 
Cannon Beach, OR 
Cape Disappointment, WA 
Paradise Valley, MT 
Along the Yellowstone River, MT 
Lake McDonald, Glacier Nat’l Park 
Deadman’s Cove, Cape Disappointment, WA 
Foothills around Missoula, MT 
Flathead River, Round Butte, MT
