National Parks 2022

We started our final day with an extra half hour to sleep in or enjoy the hotel breakfast before packing up the bus one final time and heading to our first destination of the day. After a quick drive through the City of Flagstaff we arrived at a water treatment plant. We followed a...

Today we woke up in a new hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. After breakfast we boarded the bus for an hour and a half journey to the Grand Canyon National Park. While on the way, we stopped by the Cameron Trading Post, which sold a plethora of interesting gifts ranging from Route 66, Native American...

It was our last day before switching hotels, so everyone got up extra early to hurriedly get their luggage outside and into the bus. Our first stop was the Toadstool Hoodoos. We learned about how different rocks erode at different rates, which created mushroom or toadstool-like hoodoos. We got to climb around the area...

For yet another early morning, everyone slowly assembled back into the bus after a long sleep and a large breakfast. Nothing felt more tiring yet exciting than riding on the bus for a day of hiking. After one of the longest bus rides of the entire trip, a whole hour and a half, we...

Day Two of the National Parks trip started bright and early with a breakfast at the hotel. We then met up with our tour guide and headed off to Zion National Park. Our first stop when arriving in Zion was the Checkerboard Mesa. It was a short stop but breathtaking nonetheless. We then went...

This morning at approximately 3:30am one could find 20 groggy teenagers gathering at Moorestown Friends School. Each of us piled into a school bus and set out for the Philadelphia airport. If you have ever been to the Philly airport you are aware that it is an extremely hectic place, and with 20 of us...