Since I'm already where I want to be and we have no road to drive out by anyway, I would invite you all to join us at a camp at 28-mile. There are dozens of unheated cabins all connected by damp paths winding among big trees. Inside each cabin are 6 platforms just waiting for your bedrolls.

The main lodge is set in a grassy sward perfect for pitching tents, volleyball and badminton nets and picnic tables. Inside the lodge, it is toasty from the overgrown barrel stove and the heat coming from the steamy kitchen. There are couches and deep chairs throughout the LARGE living room, next to lots and lots of round tables that will be set up on edge when the dancing starts.

Not far away- maybe 500 feet is the Winter Cabin, with an oldfashioned stove and beds to accommodate 23, and unlimited bed-on-the-floor spots.

Every few cabins there is an outhouse but there is also a heated bathhouse with flush gasp toilets.

This is a rain forest,it is true, but we will arrange for one of our periods of blue skies and mellow glancing light every day and star lit nights, perhaps with northern lights undulating overhead, should anyone wish it.

We will sing and play as late as we wish indoors and out and get up as early or as late as we can justify to ourselves.

This is a wilderness, folks, so do be aware of meeting the odd bear ambling down a path. One rule: Do Not SURPRISE a Bear.

Oh, yes- and we can stay as long as we like.

Ebbie