Hello faithful readers! Well so much for the weekly blog posts!! That didn’t last long. Sorry about that. I am trying to post more, so please bear with me!
Well another family camping season has come upon us and has blown by with as much speed as a class 5 hurricane! We camped in June, in Hocking Hills Ohio. I was able to get in some really awesome hiking! Me, my wife, and 2 brothers-in-law (BIL) hiked 8 miles!! It was awesome! We some beautiful natural wonders, Old Man’s Cave, Rock House, Ash Cave, Conkle’s’ Hollow, Cedar Falls, and the Cantwell Cliffs! I love it down there! I would love to go back there someday, with just the wife. We had gone down there many times before camping with the families.
Then came summer camp at the end of June. It was my first summer camp as Scoutmaster. I was totally nervous, and excited. We stayed at the Custaloga Town Scout Reservation. It is located near Carlton, PA and is about 5.5 hours away from home. I didn’t have a single scout get homesick or get majorly hurt. I did have a scout get some blisters on his toes, and then on his fingertips from a lantern. Don’t ask. We shall just call him “Blisters” from now on! We had one minor issue, that almost blew up into a major issue. One scout left his wallet out, and another left his money on his pillow. Some other scout “misappropriated” it. I had to stop being the cool scoutmaster and turn into the angry and disappointed scoutmaster. I told the scouts that tents will be turned out if the money and wallet aren’t returned by the end of the day and until then, no Gaga Pit or Trading Post!! The Gaga pit was a kind of thunder dome/dodge ball pit area. Needless to say, the items were returned after dinner and all was back to normal!! Thank GOD!
Lastly, we just got back from a family vacation to Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula!! We stayed in lovely Newberry, MI. Specifically, the Newberry KOA, which was just down the road from the city limits. We visited Tahquamenon Falls, Munising, Whitefish Point, Manistique, Historic Fayette State Park, Oswald’s Bear Ranch, and the Newberry Logging Museum. My family and I also hiked from the Upper Falls to the Lower Falls! It was 4 miles of great hiking, only marred by the fact that I got stung by a wasp, on the kneecap!! We weren’t even at the halfway point and that happened! We even spent some time the next day swimming and wading in the lower falls! My kids loved it!
Since we are mostly done with camping trips, for the most part, I will be parking my butt in front of a PC for the rest of the summer. I WILL try to post more frequently, and with fervor! I think the next one will be on scouting, and on what I am doing right, and what I fear I may be doing wrong! Till next time!!