day 26. time for the journey home.

and so that's it. the last night of my epic roadtrip. this last week was great! i was up in vail, colorado hanging out with my buddy jim rabun(not to be confused with jim rayburn, the founder of young life lol). his life right now is the definition of "living the dream". during the season, he works up on the mountain. cafeteria, driving the ice trucks, and in this sweet hot dog shop up in the trails. in the mornings he wakes up and him and his buddies are the first ones to hit the slopes. which makes for some super stellar rides with fresh powder. then they work all day, and according to them it doesn't even feel like work. then they come down from the mountain and go back to their places and hangout. and that's what they do. all. winter. long. freaking sweet! it's seriously is awesome and almost tempting to do myself..but of course school is more on the front line now.

anyways, long story short, vail was awesome. and even though i didn't get to hit up the slopes because the season was over, it was awesome seeing jimbo and hearing about what the Lord is doing in his life right now, even though the place he was at is definitely one where struggles happen big time.

so after leaving colorado i took off for the great state of kansas. which had to be both the best and worst drive of my trip haha. the first few hours were great because i was driving through the canyons of east colorado, but then i got into kansas. oh lord help me. kansas is nothing but flatlands and fields. farmers and crops. emptiness and roads that go on forever. but it was still totally awesome! i enjoyed being in the car and stopping every now and then to check out random kansas hotspots. like a gas station. a truckstop. a mall. oh, and KU! because even though kansas has it's sketch parts, one great area is lawrence, where my friends mj and sarah were at!

KU was great. its funny, because even though kansas is flatlands throughout most of the state, KU's campus is right on a hill. which was great for walking and getting uber tired after 5 minutes haha. i stayed in mj's place, which was just a bunch of YL guys livig together under one roof. it was pretty awesome. i didn't pull into KU until around 11:30 so i was pretty beat and didn't do too much on that day. but the next day was sweet, sarah and me went to a brunch for kids that travel overseas. a big fancy meal were people were kinda dressy, and there i was in jorts and a tshirt looking like i just walked out of the wilderness haha. but it was still very enjoyable, mainly because i didn't give a turd what any of those people thought.

the rest of the day was pretty chill. sarah gave me a nice walking tour of the campus and then i went back to mj's place to hangout while everyone was in class. it was great getting some alone time while not being in the car. i just watched tv and lounged out, which is exactly what i needed at the time.

that night i had a chance to get yet another glimpse of the Lord at work, and that was through College Life. For those who aren't sure College Life is (because i wasn't even sure until i went), its pretty much just like high school YL but for college aged kids. it's led by college students and a few leaders. its basically an outreach for college kids, which is uber awesome. i was able to see kids my age who know the Lord interact with kids who don't know the Lord that are the same age! it was crazy! and everything was run exactly the way it is with the high school kids! games, skits, songs, and a talk. it was great to see the Lord doing work with the kids in lawrence at that level. i also got a chance to hangout with my friend taylor, which was awesome because even though she's 2 years younger than me, and i've only hung out with her a couple times, it felt like we knew each other pretty well!

so that's colorado and kansas for ya. it was a great wrap-up to my trip. i'll have one last post doing a final look back on my trip and all the awesome things i've learned and come to figure out in the last 4 weeks.

biscuits and eggs folks.