Early morning wake, walk to the car, drive to Mt. Rainier, failure, multiple stops and hike, lost, audiobook return, Mexican restaurant dinner [Sat 19]

 Got up early, ready for the Mt. Rainier hike. Walked over to G's place, their doggo A wasn't coming with us this time around, so it was just the three of us.

We drove out of town for an hour before stopping for 30 minutes so the car could charge. Beyond that the drive was decently uneventful. As Mt. Rainier got closer, it was amazing to realize that it was the closest I'd ever gotten to a real-life mountain peak despite being from Nepal, the folks gave me some shit for that.

After driving all the way to the top of the mountain we discovered they didn't have empty parking spaces, and waiting for 20 minutes didn't help. So we decided to not go any forward and pause on the hiking plans. Instead, we'd visit all the cool cute little places around the mountain. Took a bunch of photos from as close as we could, and drove down.

Stopped at about maybe a dozen places on our way down the mountain. So many glaciers, glacier-caused river diversions, amazing waterfalls and fast-flowing whitewater rivers. It was amazing. Our small hikes were bookended by our attempt to hike this short half-mile trail where we got lost in a thick forest, couldn't find the trail and had to return back the way we got in. The trees here are massive, hundreds of feet long, when they go down, it's almost like walking on an unending bridge. Thanks to the fertile volcanic ash and soil, they should try growing Italian tomatoes in these lands and see how close we can get to their export-quality stuff.

Listened to a bit of Ayoade's "On top" audiobook, until the guys were too freaked out by the insane traffic.

Back in S town, we went to a Mexican restaurant nearby G's place. It was a pretty decent place, we got simple cheesy tortillas, a lemonade each, and split an avocado dip among the three of us. It was twenty-five bucks all things included. Maaan, eating out in Seattle is expensive.

Walked back home very tired, called A to check if he needed help with moving, no response, so set up clubhouse, listened to a tonne of podcasts, and slept. Not having had proper sleep in the past three days, I very much wanted to get some sound sleep before the end of the weekend.