One Week Until West Virginia - But Boston First

It's just about one week until I leave for summer camp orientation in West Virginia for a week before heading out to Oregon. Its really sneaking up on us fast, but before I leave we head to Boston to see Shai & Shelby, the Triplets (& the Stein's) and a host of other fun people (non of whom read this blog as far as I know, although shout-out to you if you do).

This trip to Boston is part of my 4 week, 8 state journey (Missouri, Georgia [layover], Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, DC [I know its a territory but it still counts], West Virginia, California [layover] and Oregon) that kicked off the weekend before with a brief trip to the StL. Evidently I really love flying, driving and layovers - who knew.

Before I conclude this blog, I thought I would take time to answer a frequently asked question about my summer internship . Everyone's first question when they find out about the position is "What will you be doing?"

To help answer that question, I thought it would be best to tell everyone what I won't be doing.

• I won't be going off the path to 'visit' a gyser (or the lake for that matter)

I will be an internal consultant working on the following topics (they still could change):

• Creating the Park's first ever business plan
• Prioritizing the Park's financial needs and then determining when, what order and for how much they should request in their federal budget & when/what order/$ amount they should work with the Friend's of Crater Lake non-profit org to fund.
• Working to help the Park to help focus its activities on achieving its core mission and strategies.