This week has been one of those weeks where I look back and wonder... what in the world do I do this week? We did have a 2 day director's retreat, hosted 600 senior high school students on Wednesday, hosted a leader retreat on Thursday and Friday and then finished the weekend with 300 guests joining us here at Camp Tejas. This past weekend we had 4 groups here, of which 3 were ladies groups. I am sure that 7% of men here this weekend really felt out of place!One of the projects I did work on and complete was updating our Camp Tejas facilities map. With the addition of the new facilities, this will make it a lot easier to explain to guest how to get to their room in the meadows. While working on it, I did think back to my first summer at Tejas in 1999. I know several people who go back to knowing what it looked like in 1981, but even in the last 9 years, this place has changed!
With the camp expanding more to the north, one of the major changes to the map is the orientation. Instead of keeping to our sideways 8.5x11, I changed it to be upright. This made a huge difference both in the ability to fit all the new roads and buildings, but the bigger part was that most of the time, I was always flipping our sideways map to help guests understand the direction they came into the camp. Hopefully, with the new map, next time you come to camp, you can help me answer the question, "Where am I?".
Paul Biles - Retreat Director