The troop arrived at camp around 6:30p and immediately started setting up camp. The focus was on getting all the gear up to camp and getting the water boiling for dinner. For the next hour, the scouts finished getting their tents up and all their gear in the tents. By 7:00p, we had a roaring fire and ate by 8:00p. There was a little drizzle overnight, but by 9:00a the sun was shining and we were on the road to Quincy Adams T-Station by 9:30a. While waiting for the subway, we used the time for a teaching moment to explain to the scouts how to read the MBTA subway maps and explained to everyone the route we were taking. Once we arrived at the Boston Common, the scouts received questionnaires that needed to be completed in order to earn the Freedom Trail pin.
We hit every stop on the Freedom Trail. Along the way, we stopped at Faneuil Hall to eat our packed lunches and finished up at the Bunker Hill Monument around 5:00p. We headed back to the subway station to get back to Quincy Adams and drove back to camp. The pizza place we stopped at last year near the Bunker Hill Monument was out of business so we ordered pizza and brought it back to camp. Several scouts played man-hunt and some went to their tents for the evening. By 10p, camp was quiet. The troop was wiped out from the day. We walked approximately 8 miles in total.
Troop 8 Cranston, RI 