Day Log 07.05.05 Tuesday

Morning was early due to about a dozen cars pulling out to do the
sunrise – lovers leap hike at 4:50 AM, I got up to see what all of the
noise was and just stayed up. Being the first or second in the shower
is not a perk, the water heater needs to be woke up as well and luke
warm water is not as nice as warm water. I finished in the bathroom,
dressed and took a walk around camp taking picture as I went. A couple
of deer were taking a walk around camp and I tried to take a few
pictures of them but holding the camera still on full zoom was a
learning experience that will help in the future. Digital camera was a
wise purchase and the 200 shots from camp already is proof of that. I
hope the computer will keep taking them along with the other 1000 shots
already in files.

Pretty sunrise through the dark clouds of the day. Now waiting for mom
to shower and will start the day of meetings. 6:31 AM.

Well 14 hours later at 8:48 PM we are starting to wind down from a day
of eating three meals, going to a dutch oven cook out with 15 different
fruit cobblers – alamode, taking in a training session, a ride with 150
other men to a wilderness camp site for a spiritual set of talk, going
on a ride from camp to Miami, finding a cell connection 15 miles along
the way, and taking a good walk over to the wilderness camping
headquarters where the trading post was closed for the night. Today
turned out to have a little of all kinds of weather, wind, thunder,
lighting, rain, clouds, sunshine, and all this at the same time a
number of times in the day.

The more I am here and being told the duties of the leaders I see a
need to have more from Connecticut and Rhode Island attend these kinds
of training sessions. It is going to be hard to transfer the
information, and impossible to convey the spiritual feelings I have had
so far while being with this group of leaders and men and women, even
with the kids present. I have been blaming the thin air for the stream
of tears flowing at some of the meetings or gatherings. Mom says it is
just old age catching up with me.

With lighting starting to pop and thunder rolling around us I think we
will just close up the tent real tight and see if sleep will come and
stay.