Ghany Gatherings Episode 33: Tent 15: Four Women. Twenty Years. One Friendship.

So before we dive into your kind of your family camp tent 15, I would love to know, you know, how you got connected to Allegheny and then what was camp like for you all as campers that might be different now? Like how have things changed and then how things stayed the same?

Uh, I'll go first.

Um, I love how basically things have stayed the same.

I mean, things evolve with time, but the schedule, the activities that, you know, what's happening at camp at, you know, say two

o'clock,

you know, it's rest hour.

When I stopped coming to camp, I would have rest hour with y'all.

It's like, where's my nap? I have to stay in my job all day? I'm not thinking that.

No, but I like how there's been the consistency of the traditions and they carried on.

And I have so much admiration and respect for how you handle today's technology world.

So that is a really hard balance.

And I think that of all the changes, that's probably one of the coolest how the kids have embraced it.

But, you know, it's A lot's just the same.

Trees are different, goat paths different, but other than that, some beautiful new buildings, but everything's still got the same layout, the same vibe, and we've still got the barge and the rowboats.

I think those are the two most impactful things to come back is looking at that barge, and I remember my dad would always go, Delaware's still there? I'd have to be old to know that one.

There's something really special about getting on the barge every year and just taking that deep breath and whatever's going on in your life, just leaving it in the parking lot, leaving it on the other side of the river, coming across to a place that I always say, I feel like I'm 27.

The minute I cross the barge, time just kind of stops.

And we kind of play like we're 26.

And it's just so great to have a place where you can come back and feel like, okay, time stands still.

The people are always new faces, but so many of the same, and you just pick up right where you left off.

I was piggybacking on that, coming across the river and leaving everything behind.

It's nice because even with the phones and things that are here, I know many of us in our tent don't bring our phones with us, but then people want to get in touch with us.

Where are you in camp? So sometimes I will carry mine just so we have one around, but it's really nice to not be on it all the time.

I just feel like everywhere we go, that's what it's like.

And here I can just put it away or the computer or work or any of those things.