May 17, 1997 (West Lafayette, IN – Off Trail til 5/21)

Back to W. Lafayette to relax a little. Graduation party for one of Dad’s grad students where we burned a whole trash can full of her thesis notes. Friends drove in from Ann Arbor and we all chilled out for the evening and went out for some late night spirits.

Good to be home with family and friends, but quite a contrast from trail life, and it is interesting that I don’t feel like I quite belong. From afar, the trail calls.

Aquaholic

May 17, 2009

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. –Lin Yutang