Big Bend J Term 2023

 On day 2 of the trip, we woke up at the hotel and got the breakfast provided at the hotel, then we got on the bus on the way to a site called Seminole canyon, and the base camp of Angel Outfitters. First, we went to Seminole canyon and viewed ancient cave paintings, as well as names written by 2 railroad workers. After that, we got back on the bus and started again on the way to the headquarters for Angel expeditions.  When got to headquarters, we tried to set up tents but we were all getting swarmed by gnats, there were so many they would fly into your eyes, nose, and sometimes your mouth. When they weren't blinding us they were biting, and the bites would give us itchy bites that plagued us for the rest of the trip. After we finally unpacked the whole bus and set up our tents and stuff, we escaped the bugs to a pavilion that our instructors had set up with anti-bug incense and food. We ate a fulfilling dinner and met our Guides; Charlie, Taylor, and Kat. They had 2 dogs tha...

Our Last Day in the Wild!      Today was the last day of paddling and camping, and a finale for our experiences in the Big Bend wilderness. We started the day fresh and early, promptly waking around sunrise and packing our sleeping bags and dry bags up. Natalie and Ira went up to the kitchen set up to get a filling breakfast started for the long day of paddling ahead. The rest of us started on our tents and brought all our things down near the boats and the kitchen. Breakfast turned out to be a delicious preparation of scrambled eggs, sausage, and potato hash, with cheese and hot sauce offered as well. It was completely filling and absolutely delicious, and we all finished quickly. Andy and Khadijah cleaned up the cooking space while everyone else got to work packing the canoes. Our guides got the kitchen folded up and in their boats and then did a final sweep of the area. And with that, we were off for our last day in the wild. We got into our boats quickly and efficient...

  On Thursday, January 5th, our journey commenced to the Big Bend national park. While we were not going to arrive the same day to the park and would have to stay a night in a hotel in Del Rio, we were sure that they day would be fun.  We began the day arriving at the school at 8:30 as usual, beginning our final preparations for the departure with making sure medicine was properly stored, and loading everything to the Post Oak activity bus. At around 9:20 the group started the multiple hour trip to San Antonio were we would plan to stop for lunch and site seeing. arriving just a little after the afternoon at 12:30, we stopped by a Tex-Mex restaurant called àcenar. After the delicious lunch we walked a block to the infamous Alamo where we stopped and learned about the history behind the missionary / fort. Once we were done with the interesting site seeing we walked to a local ice cream shop where we all had a snack of sweet and tasty ice cream. After the snack we ventured throu...

Our group on our way to Del Rio while some students entertain themselves with some karaoke!   Stopping at a Mexican restaurant in San Antonio! Taking a stop at the Alamo in San Antonio!