Wilderness Merit Badge

I’ll tell you what…

if you’re brave enough to leave the calm, comfortable, gorgeous place that we call home here in Utah…

and move to the outer regions of the universe with it’s own particular wild hearted appeal…

then I would suspect you’re probably also brave enough to…

sleep in a tent in the utter wilderness, despite the hordes of ferocious wild creatures lurking about…

and possibly you’re even brave enough to…

fish for your own breakfast in the biggest pond I’ve ever seen, that could, in fact be hiding the Loch Ness Monster’s American cousin…

then most likely you are also brave enough to…

take whatever creatures you foraged and hunted and scared up and slow roast them over an open fire out in the middle of nowhere.

So, I’m thinking…

if you’re going to do all that brave stuff with wreckless, crazy, wild abandon, then you may as well do it an a lovely place like this…

that is even lovelier with you all in it.

I sure adore you guys.

I sure miss you guys.

I’m glad you were a boy scout.