All week I've been at the Twin Rivers Campground up in the mountains of NC.  We've been tubbing down the river, swimming in the river and cooking up a storm.  My kids have been in heaven and the real fun is this weekend when they expect more than 100 VW buses to be in for the finale of the High Country Bus Festival.

• Boy Scout Knife by Imperial with Scout Emblem
• Old Pin Collection, Pin Back, Veteran Year Pins
• Scoutmasters Lapel Pins 1930ish, More, BSA
• Pinewood Derby Car Wood Metal Folk Art
• Boy Scout Merit Badge Manuals, 47 Total

I've sorta had en epiphany up here that many of you can relate to.  I have spent all week in the midst of a "tribe" of people.  They have their own traditions, common memories, and ways of doing things. I spend about a half dozen weekends every year camping with the Scouts and they do the same with there VW community.  It's kinda of a fascinating anthropology experience to be in the middle of it.

• BSA 481 Aracoma S13 Flap 1987 SE-3 Conclave Host
• Koo Koo Ku Hoo Lodge 161 S4 Flap WWW Mint
• Apoxky Aio 2015 NOAC Spartan OBV Set
• Zit Kala Sha Lodge 123 Lot Patches
• Lodge 506 Yokahu S-2 Flap

Last night we walked down through the primitive area of the campground where the true believers camp out.  I saw plenty of laughter around the campfire and at least one bottle of homemade spirits but didn't smell anything funny in the air.  It was a pretty family friendly crowd and my kids were passing out glow stick bracelets to the little ones in the campground.

• National Jamboree Neckerchief Lt Blue Gold Edge
• Medals and Other Collectible Medals Pins Etc
• CSP Puerto Rico Council Full Set 5 Patch
• Croatan Lodge 117 F1 First Flap Patch
• Memsochet Lodge 507 Flap Patches

So far I've retold the story of my 1967 VW Bus a few times.  That doesn't make me part of the club but at least I can fit in a bit.  You can only have so many hobbies in life and maintaining a notoriously unreliable VW bus is an expensive one.  I probably spent $6000 all together in my bus and sadly sold it on eBay in the end for about $900.  We'll see if I ever dip my toes in again but my rule of thumb for things like this is that sorta like the pets in our family.  All of them have "found us" rather than us going and looking for them.  So I figure that a bus will do the same if it's meant to be.  I could see myself trading Boy Scout patches for a bus if anybody on this planet is game for that deal.

• SR-7B Cardinal Conclave Chapter Chief Meeting Patch
• 1952 Area 6A NC Fellowship Flap Camp Tuscarora
• Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 BLK BDR Flap Franken
• 1979 SE-3A NC Conclave Camp Raven Knob
• Centennial Mowogo Lodge 243 Flap Cards
• 1978 SE-3A NC Conclave Fort Caswell
• Area 6A NC Fellowship Camp Durant