On Tuesday, August 8th the Westward Bound Teen Expedition Trip officially took off for their week long journey to the Western United States. With an early morning departure from the Tapply-Thompson Community Center in Bristol, they landed in Cortez, Colorado after almost 16 hours of traveling. The first stops on the trip were to Mesa Verde National Park, and the Four Corners Monument Navajo Tribal Park, where there is the four-way intersection of the states Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.

From there the trip went to Moab, Utah to visit Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse State Park. The last two stops were to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Zapata Falls, in Colorado, as our travelers returned to the Community Center very late on the following Tuesday, August 15th, after several delays and some travel memories seared into our students minds for a lifetime. Student travelers kept a Journal and delivered reports from the field via social media, as they worked hard to cover all the logistics of this journey.

This was the 14th Annual Westward Bound Expedition Project, where the Community Center sends students out West for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to explore different National Parks.

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