In Between Days

I'm not too sure on how the international timeline works, but spending my 22nd birthday in the air between Los Angeles and Sydney on a plane by myself doesn't sound too enticing. It is because of this fact that I have decided to come back to Panorama for at least another month and a bit after I finish the road trip I have planned that kicks off in under two weeks. Whether I have enough money to stay and snowboard until February remains a mystery. Although it would be nice it would be tres dissapointing to be stuck in Canada without a flight home making no money and missing out on my third year of University and coincidentally forfeiting the last two completed years.

Aside from all of this, the last few weeks of the summer at Panorama are ending a little differently to the ones that closed the winter. I don't know whether it's because it's a lot of Canadian Uni students and they haven't yet figured the travelling vibe, but a lot of people are deciding to wallow in sadness rather than enjoy the time we have left. The truth is there are a lot of people I have met in the summer (not unlike the winter) that, odds are, I will never see again. The more I be sad about it now, the more it may or may not haunt my emotions for a long time to come. The way I see it, if I'm happy when I leave and stoked about the gnarly time I had with these people, I'll just be satisfied that I made the most of it and know that wherever they are they'll be friends for life whether I see them again or not.

After I leave here, I hitch a ride with some friends to Vancouver Island to meet up with the boys, Brad and Alex, to watch them ride out the last week of work before starting our road trip. Between now and then, are the In Between Days I speak of in the title. The days spent waiting, trying to hold onto money and (probably) dwelling on the last three months and letting the fact that all my friends from summer have dissapeared from my life (hopefully for the time being) bascially sink in.

Majority of the time, this trip has been filled with amazing times both chill and intense fun. But it's these transitional periods that really put you through the test. Like the immortal Pat Salmon would say; it's character building.