Havasupai Camping Trip

 The solo camping trip at Havasupai (more photos coming)

I just came back from from the 4D3N solo camping trip to Havasupai - a trip that was planned all the way back in 2019 =))

The story was, I went camping with 4 other friends in 2018 at Glacier National Park, and we were so excited and wanted to do Havasupai together, so I went ahead and bought 4 tickets ($400/each for a total of $1200). At that time, who the hell knew that the pandemic would happen and keep pushing this trip back until now?

Not wanting to absorb the cost of all 4 tickets, I sold 2 tickets 1 year later.

Looking back, 3 years was a long time. My friends who went camping with me in Glacier, some have moved away; one even got married; one I don't even talk to anymore.

Either way, I had 2 tickets left, so I asked another friend to go with me. Initially she wanted to go, then she got a boyfriend, and wasn't going anymore.

Before the pandemic ended, she broke up with her boyfriend, but she still was not going with me =)))

(I also asked a couple more people but things just didn't pan out).

As a result, I tried to sell the other ticket and decided to go camping solo, but I guess nobody wanted to buy a single camping ticket on weekdays =))))

"Oh well, fuck it, I will just go camping solo then" - I thought. "If I could go backpacking solo in Colombia, a solo backpacking trip in the US is nothing."

In the end, I completed a about 32 miles (about 52 km) in 4 days (with heavy camping gear). All my toes were blistered and hurt =))).

Besides, I had to withstand the freezing temperature of about 0 celsius every night haha.

What made me happy was, there was not a single day that I was not surrounded by new friends and companions. Thanks Mike, Russ, Michele, and chi Han.

Back to the hike, the last climb out was brutal. I thought I wasn't gonna make it out, so my survival mode kicked in, and I took breaks to catch my breath every 5 mins hahaha.

Though costly (I had to pay for 2 tickets), this trip was nostalgic and reminded me about the good memories back in 2020 when I spent 2 months roadtripping in the desert land of Nevada, Utah and Arizona.

Looking back, I was extremely lucky, because I had an interview just the day before the trip. Had I booked the trip 1 day earlier, or had the interview happened 1 day later, I wouldn't have made the trip.

Furthermore, 1 week before my trip, there was a snowstorm, and 1 week after my trip, there was a flooding at the campground, so my camping trip happened to be at the perfect time.

Sometimes I wonder why I am so lucky, and do I even deserve all this luck?

But hey, if there is a Guardian Angel somewhere that watches over me, and blesses me with all the opportunities, I would take everything