El Paso Texas Campers and CIC
CIC has a growing community of campers from El Paso Texas. Maria and I had the chance to visit there this past weekend. It was my third trip to El Paso and Maria's first.
We flew non-stop from LAX on Southwest. It was an easy 1 hour and 45 minute flight. El Paso is 800 miles from our home in Altadena. That's closer than Houston is to El Paso. It 4 hours is due south from Albuquerque. Interstate 10 runs through El Paso on its way from Santa Monica to Florida.
The first camper from El Paso was Alex Taber. Most campers will know Alex because he came to CIC for 4 weeks his first summer, 8 weeks two years ago and 4 weeks last summer. His brother Scott came 2 weeks and then 4 weeks last summer. They are both coming four weeks this summer. They obviously love camp. Alex was one of the campers I consulted with before making the switch of boys cabin names two summers ago.
Alex and Scott's mom, Andrea, also loves camp. El Paso is pretty hot in the summer so she wanted the boys to get out of Dodge for awhile. The first year she sent us several referral cards full of families who she thought would be interested in CIC. I was going to Texas for a conference so we arranged for me to stop in El Paso for 8 hours. We held a small gathering and a few more campers decided to attend camp the next summer. I even got to have birthday dinner with with the boy's dad Jeff at a great restaraunt in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about a 30 minute drive frm their home.
In 2008, I returned to El Paso and we had a reunion and opportunity to meet more families. Even more campers came from El Paso last summer. I think there were a total of 12 different campers.
I made Maria come along this year to meet everyone. Andrea arranged for us to come to St. Clements School and meet new families there. It was great. Afterwards we had another reunion and met more families who had come before and are coming for the first time this summer.
Andrea and I were counting up the families and we think we may have 20 campers from El Paso this summer. The families all love being part of CIC and knowing their children are all going to the same camp and get to meet so many new friends from California and across the United States.
Alex and Scott will once again get all three camper referral gifts from CIC when they get to camp this summer. If you would like to share camp with friends you know call our office at 800-696-2267 or return the brown referral card in every mailing we send.
We flew non-stop from LAX on Southwest. It was an easy 1 hour and 45 minute flight. El Paso is 800 miles from our home in Altadena. That's closer than Houston is to El Paso. It 4 hours is due south from Albuquerque. Interstate 10 runs through El Paso on its way from Santa Monica to Florida.
The first camper from El Paso was Alex Taber. Most campers will know Alex because he came to CIC for 4 weeks his first summer, 8 weeks two years ago and 4 weeks last summer. His brother Scott came 2 weeks and then 4 weeks last summer. They are both coming four weeks this summer. They obviously love camp. Alex was one of the campers I consulted with before making the switch of boys cabin names two summers ago.
Alex and Scott's mom, Andrea, also loves camp. El Paso is pretty hot in the summer so she wanted the boys to get out of Dodge for awhile. The first year she sent us several referral cards full of families who she thought would be interested in CIC. I was going to Texas for a conference so we arranged for me to stop in El Paso for 8 hours. We held a small gathering and a few more campers decided to attend camp the next summer. I even got to have birthday dinner with with the boy's dad Jeff at a great restaraunt in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about a 30 minute drive frm their home.
In 2008, I returned to El Paso and we had a reunion and opportunity to meet more families. Even more campers came from El Paso last summer. I think there were a total of 12 different campers.
I made Maria come along this year to meet everyone. Andrea arranged for us to come to St. Clements School and meet new families there. It was great. Afterwards we had another reunion and met more families who had come before and are coming for the first time this summer.
Andrea and I were counting up the families and we think we may have 20 campers from El Paso this summer. The families all love being part of CIC and knowing their children are all going to the same camp and get to meet so many new friends from California and across the United States.
Alex and Scott will once again get all three camper referral gifts from CIC when they get to camp this summer. If you would like to share camp with friends you know call our office at 800-696-2267 or return the brown referral card in every mailing we send.
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