Montana

So this has by far been my most eventful summer yet and I have had the privilege to travel several beautiful places across the country. I don't want to cram everything into one post and make any less genuine than the others so I will be dividing the places up by posts. This post will be about my time in Montana from the time summer break had started. 

Finals week reached a close and I had figured out my plans to get back to Colorado with a friend who wanted to ride back with me. He was the only other student from the same high school as me and when we started school we went up together, so it was both symbolic and convenient to ride back together. We weren't allowed to stay in the dorms once break had started but luckily he had just signed on for an apartment with two friends and we were able to stay there for the few days we would be in Montana. The first day after we moved out we went on a hike in the Bridger mountains that were about a half hour away from town, it was a really relaxed and fun hike (in the picture). After the hike Devon, the friend, brought me to a house that his friends lived at and we played some video games with them while they introduced me to Rosa's pizza, which, if you are ever in Bozeman is a must have. Devon was very different from most of my other friends because the content of our conversations was so different. It was actually a bit refreshing. We discussed things like love, emotion, diversity of the individual and - as we have in the past - we once again realized how similar we were despite us never actually being around each other all that much. During my adventures in Bozeman with Devon I had been talking to this amazing girl and on one night we stayed up on the from from about 11:45 pm to 6:00 am. It was absolutely wonderful. I hung out with my friend Bjorn, one of the people whom I will be living with in the fall, and we also had a nice philosophical talk in the mountains just outside of town. Soon enough the day of departure had arrived and we began our adventure back to Colorado. 

-Umar