Super Happy Fun Time

I had planned on spamming you with copious verbage but I seem to have forgotten how to write. Sorry. The salient points plus a bunch of pics follow.
I arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona (a liberal, outdoorsy, university town about the size of Perth) on 29 May and headed out on my first project on the Tuesday –fencing at Wupatki National Monument. Imagine ten people in a white van living in a primitive campsite (toilet = digging a hole in the woods) and building fences in incredible heat. It was pretty hard to adjust to at first but by day three (after seeing petroglyphs and an amazing sunset) I was sold on the whole thing. I can now roll up barbed wire (it’s harder than it sounds), use a Pionjar and trudge up a very steep hill carrying heavy objects.

This is Wupatki:


This is our worksite:



This is us working:


This is the wire I rolled:


This is a Pionjar:


This is a ruin:


This is us looking at ruins after work:


And finally, Crew Dinner (an essential part of the fun, involving food and far too much alcohol when we get back from project). [Left to right: Matthias, Ben, ATG (supervisor), moi, Julija, Greg, Julian]:



Btw, Super Happy Fun Time is the name given to the supervisor’s morning regime of push-ups and ab exercises. It is not super, happy or fun.