Philmont Eve
Spending the night at the Liberal Inn, in Liberal, Kansas. Home of Dorothy, of Wizard of Oz reknown, and also the International Pancake Festival. Please tell me how it gets any better than that.
Tomorrow, I'll roll into Philmont Scout Ranch, 214 square miles of wilderness, with over 300 miles of trails, and lots of black bears. 20,000 or so Scouts go through here every year. Oddly, I arrive just as the National Jamboree week is about to begin, marking 100 years of Boy Scouts in the USA. Because of that, Philmont is able to host a week long staff reunion - a truly great week for me to begin.
So I'll be in the midst of buffalo roaming, deer and antelope playing (they don't play well with each other). It will be my home for the next month... my sixth journey to Scouting's promised land. I'll meet with Elder Wilson and learn my rotation of assignments.
I hope to begin to add pictures soon. I'll take any prayer requests you want lifted from a mountain top!