Traveling over two-thousand miles, I thought that I wouldn’t see a familiar face for quite some time. Experience, however, tells me that this often isn’t the case. For instance, I have a friend who moved to Casper, Wyoming and we plan to do some fishing this summer, two of my college friends will be in Montana next month and we are hoping to get together, and a friend that I met in Congaree is working in Yellowstone this summer and she is staying in the same dorm as me. However large the western landscape, this is certainly a small world.
It took two whole weeks before I received a visitor. Claudia, another friend that I met back at Congaree, was primarily visiting to inquire about employment in a geological capacity. I was thrilled to learn that she and her brother were interested in a personal tour of the park. I made no promise of my interpretation of the park’s wonderful sights but I did guarantee good company and adventure. Continue reading “Guide and Tourist”