Waycross, Georgia (2016)

This was my first Scouting experience as a parent. I hadn’t been involved at all since I received my Eagle Scout in 1989. Now I had a son who was interested and it was not only in a different state (Georgia versus genteel Virginia), but it’s a different era.

At this Scouting experience there was a lot of singing and clapping and praising of Lord Jesus, as well as a multitude of the parents who were either tattooed or vaping. While praising Jesus.

Further, there was absolutely no shade anywhere and the thermometer was reading 98 degrees Fahrenheit.

I almost threw in the towel right then and there.

That would be the last Scout campout I’d attend without booze…