Just back from 24 days in the mountains with Naval Academy midshipmen. What an awesome time we had. We climbed peaks, saw the stars and milky way, and the space station fly overhead a few times. We fished, briefed and debriefed, learned a ton along the way and the midshipmen all have so many leadership lessons to take back with them to their lives in the Navy. I had wonderful co-instructors and it was a wonderful group of "mids." I didn't want the course to end.
We camped and traveled with new COVID protocols, but after two weeks as a family unit with no symptoms, we were temporarily free of the COVID world. It was wonderful to escape the medical, and political news for a few weeks. Especially good to be in the mountains after the last two summers of graduate school. We lived simply out there. Generally, each day's task was to move from point A to point B in the best style possible, learning as much as we could along the way. No phones, no computers, no social media. Just good old fashion back country living. Lots of lake and river swimming, lots of time looking at the mountains. I remember at one point looking around in awe of the mountains and thinking, "I don't have this feeling on a daily basis in the front country..." I've got to work on that. Many good laughs, new friends and new experiences.
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