After a short two day delay, I eventually arrived on the ranch yesterday morning. My Workaway host, Alice, picked me up from the city of Buffalo which is around a 40 minute drive, so I was very grateful for that, and on the drive back she took me for breakfast – I hadn’t even arrived […]
New York
The cowboy transformation
Since camp has finished I’ve been travelling around America for a few days with friends, and am having a great time, but, this Saturday I’ll be leaving them to go work on a horse ranch for a few weeks. So, how did I arrange this work back in England? The secret is… Workaway. […]
Farewell: A warning
I hope my posts have shown camp to be an incredible (and hugely recommended) experience, however, there is one important disclosure I feel obliged to make: No matter how much you don’t want it to, summer will end. The end of summer means you will have to say Good Bye to many very close […]
Crazy at Camp
The other night I stood on stage in court, talking to a judge, accompanied by a jury of my peers, on charge for stealing a golf cart. If found guilty, my punishment would be to have pasta salad poured all over my head. As I protested and pleaded my innocence in front of 200+ screaming […]
So I jumped from a plane…
A few days ago, I wrote a blog post relaying my first skydive. Here’s the video evidence!
Skydiving
Skydiving… Pretty high up nearly everyone’s bucket list eh? Well, mine included, for quite a while! It’s something I’ve long wanted to do, but always thought I’d just do another day. Well, today was that ‘another day’ – I organised a group of people from camp who were keen to jump out of a perfectly […]
Camp 2014!!
So I got back in from an afternoon’s kayaking to discover that I had been accepted to work at camp again this summer. I’d made the decision to reapply, and even been asked by Long Point Camp to do so, so it came as no surprise. While I wasn’t speechless, or find myself jumping around […]
Firebreathing!
During my time in the US of A, I had the chance to try firebreathing, something I had never even remotely considered doing before, and something that, had I thought about it, it would probably have made me a little nervous. In fact, the first time, the opportunity arose to try it, I decided not […]
Niagara Falls
As you are probably aware, I went to a summer camp in New York State this year. A theme which runs through the entire camp session was that it didn’t feel like we were just a source of cheap labour. One perk was that camp organised a cultural trip for all staff to Niagara Falls. This […]
Summer 2013
Amazingly, I have not yet written a blog post about what I did this summer! This summer, I spent 10 weeks working at a Summer Camp in upstate New York and then travelling after. This was quite simply an incredible period of time! Going into the summer, I saw it as a cheap way to […]