Babyboomers...need your feedback: Summer Camp

[JanMichael]

If you could, would you go back to summer camp? The cabins with no A/C...just screens in the windows...

Coleman flannel lined sleeping bags?

Food cooked in the big kitchen, and s'mores over the campfire?

Green canoes, and archery teachers?

Craft stuff?

Fishing?

Rock climbing walls?

Swimming in the pond/lake?

Horses that appeared to be rescues from the glue factory?

NO cell phones, computers, faxes.

Poison Ivy and mosquito bites, and that pink crap you put on the hives?

Would you spend two weeks there again?

[Katina]

1. never went as a camper

only as a lifeguard for the whole summer and I'd do it again in a heartbeat even though a counselor broke my heart.

[Katina]

2. oops double post

:shrug:

[trof]

3. Yeah, but now I'd take a carton of cigs and a case of Scotch.

[JanMichael]

5. What if that were allowed?

would you go?

[trof]

10. Shoot yeah.

I had fun at summer camp.
Especially the co-ed ones.

[skygazer]

4. I never got to go to summer camp

I worked at the riding stable where they went for lessons (no glue factory rescues there, though) and we had hours of amusement watching them bounce around the riding ring. :rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Never went, but an older friend of mine told of taking her grandchildren

to a Quaker-sponsored "family camp" that banned all electronic communication devices, radio, and TV.

The kids were afraid that they'd be bored, but in fact, they enjoyed swimming, exploring the woods, learning new skills, playing improvised games, sitting around a campfire and singing silly songs, looking at the nighttime sky without city lights interfering, and other stuff, none of which was compulsory, by the way, that they didn't want to go home at the end of the week.

[Redstone]

7. Summer camp? Hah! We grew up in a little town surrounded by woods and brooks and ponds. We didn't

NEED no esteenkin' summer camp.

And even if we did, we were poor, so we wouldn't have gotten it anyway.

Redstone

[skygazer]

9. Did you have to walk five country miles to school?

Through the snow? Uphill? Both ways? I did. O8)

(I always wondered what the difference between a country mile and any other type of mile was. Where I lived, there were only country miles anyway)

[Redstone]

11. Nah, we lived in the village, so I have to be honest, it was 1/4 mile each way, but we did

have to take turns carrying each other if it was our day to get to wear the family pair of shoes.

Redstone

[evlbstrd]

8. I never went to summer camp.

But our house had no A/C, and there were no cel phones, computers, video games or faxes.

[Zomby Woof]

12. Only if I can bring Jack Daniel's this time

What the hell good is a campfire without it?

[JanMichael]

18. Would you go if you could bring your JD?

Steph sure as hell wouldn't!

Call us sometime!

[idgiehkt]

13. arghh

now I want to go camping. The weather is perfect. Not a baby boomer and never went to camp as a kid but this thread made me nostalgic for my tent and sleeping back. :cry:

[KG]

14. no, thanks

just wasn't that much fun for me.

[NC_Nurse]

15. Hell yeah!

I loved camp. Only got to go once. I would've stayed there forever if I could've. I know all my kids loved it too.

[styersc]

16. Mary Help of Christians Boys Camp outside of Tampa, Florida.

Had lots of fun- capture the flag, bon fires and ghost stories. When a monk tells a ghost story, that puppy can stick with you a lifetime.

[salin]

17. in a minute.

Would have to be the right place. I spent two weeks at one camp that was .. eh... and two weeks at another camp that was a little less programmed (there were various things going on but even as a nine year old there was a whole lot of self-direction allowed) - that camp I kept going back to - and spent three years working there as a counselor for part of the summer.

[YDogg]

19. Sure, why not?

Tossing hatchets at trees was a blast.

[noamnety]

20. Not so different from working in a relief camp

or hiking part of the appalachian trail.

So, yes, absolutely. I'm leaving my modern life the day after tomorrow for another short spell.