Twelve things to remember (more or less) from Ben Country XII.
1. The mate on the ferry joking with “club spokesman” Ben birthday-boy-guest-of-honor, that the captain had a special treat for us: he’d agreed to let us off before the boat reached the dock!
2. Part One of BCXII Animal Planet: a whale! (Well, froth and foam on the Sound, anyway; you fill in the rest with your imagination and the cheers of ferry rider families).
3. Part Two of BCXII Animal Planet: kittens! (It’s still hard to believe that TooTall didn’t tuck one in his jersey when we left.)
4. Part Three of BCXII Animal Planet: A goat named David, a peacock showing off on a fence, and an albino pheasant that stayed under wraps.
5. No one, (except maybe Mark, who might have been misplaced earlier), getting lost on the Lost Highway.
6. Whenever you go down a hill, you have to climb back up; and yes, it’s worth it, especially when you eventually get to re-group and congregate at the roofless clubhouse for the special opportunity to urinate on broken glass.
7. So much pizza! And even more at camp.
8. Just enough rain to make it officially a Ben Country, but that’s all; and pretty soon, the clouds part to reveal an almost full moon bright enough to shine brightly through your rain fly.
9. Sensible portions! (Except of the so-called “time,” which the Fancy Dancer munched like potato chips while those of us with lower tolerances or less experience experiencing timelessness rode the cresting temporal waves with just a few blue-tinted crumbs.)
10. Thirty seconds; twenty seconds; ten seconds of quiet; Happy Birthday!
11. Lying in your tent, staring at the ancient Egyptians dancing on the insides of your eyelids, wondering why all those people around the fire won’t stop tickling that poor woman.
12. No shame in catching a truck ride home; showered, shaved, and on the couch napping by noon.
1. The mate on the ferry joking with “club spokesman” Ben birthday-boy-guest-of-honor, that the captain had a special treat for us: he’d agreed to let us off before the boat reached the dock!
2. Part One of BCXII Animal Planet: a whale! (Well, froth and foam on the Sound, anyway; you fill in the rest with your imagination and the cheers of ferry rider families).
3. Part Two of BCXII Animal Planet: kittens! (It’s still hard to believe that TooTall didn’t tuck one in his jersey when we left.)
4. Part Three of BCXII Animal Planet: A goat named David, a peacock showing off on a fence, and an albino pheasant that stayed under wraps.
5. No one, (except maybe Mark, who might have been misplaced earlier), getting lost on the Lost Highway.
6. Whenever you go down a hill, you have to climb back up; and yes, it’s worth it, especially when you eventually get to re-group and congregate at the roofless clubhouse for the special opportunity to urinate on broken glass.
7. So much pizza! And even more at camp.
8. Just enough rain to make it officially a Ben Country, but that’s all; and pretty soon, the clouds part to reveal an almost full moon bright enough to shine brightly through your rain fly.
9. Sensible portions! (Except of the so-called “time,” which the Fancy Dancer munched like potato chips while those of us with lower tolerances or less experience experiencing timelessness rode the cresting temporal waves with just a few blue-tinted crumbs.)
10. Thirty seconds; twenty seconds; ten seconds of quiet; Happy Birthday!
11. Lying in your tent, staring at the ancient Egyptians dancing on the insides of your eyelids, wondering why all those people around the fire won’t stop tickling that poor woman.
12. No shame in catching a truck ride home; showered, shaved, and on the couch napping by noon.
13. YOU'LL GET STABBED
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