Fundraising!

The actual PCT doesn't really cost money, you do need a permit for the US portion, $5, and one for Canada, which is free. The main costs for us was all of the gear (money saving tips there will come later!) and the biggest portion was money to pay for our bills while we're gone on the trail. When we had decided we wanted to do the trip for sure we knew that even though it was up in the air, we weren't sure we could even do it, we knew we would have to fundraise as soon as we got back home from Christmas in Oregon. Two days after we got back I got a job handing out business cards at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. I was hired for four days. My interest in "people watching" was quickly overshadowed by the freezing weather, standing on my feet without a break from eight hours a day, a few lewd comments, and the blatant disregard of my very existence by 90% of the people that passed me on the street. It got pretty slow...

   At the same time Alex got a temp job that week as well. He got a job one d

ay to fill out a survey for how people are affected by watching programs on different sized screens...or that's what he thought. He got there and they proceeded to put electrodes on his hands, face, and head. A leave in conditioner was put into his hair through a swim

 cap to act as a conductor. He then watched Planet Earth on different sized screens and ended the survey by clicking a button every time a blue frog popped on the screen....seriously. I am SO sorry to say that there is no actual picture of this! But hey, he made $75 in one hour!