Late nights and an early day-camp bus, for example, do not mix.
Fact: Blustery Winds' ballyhooed "Homeward Bound Self-Reliance Program" is a transparent cover for the fact that the camp bus has been sold.
I worked from home so that I could pick up my children from the camp bus and my wife could work a full day.
She charged that when she was 13, after two months away from home, her parents neglected to pick her up from the summer-camp bus, and she walked home to an empty apartment.
The musical, adapted from Stephan Elliott's 1994 comedy "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24.
"It was like an art student's 'Real World' crossed with 'This Old House,' " Erich Nagler, 20, a junior at the Parsons School of Design in New York, said of the eight-hour days spent etching bathroom mirrors and showers in a red-and-green plaid and decorating the camp "bus," a 1984 Cadillac, with shark fins and a toothy grin.
The next morning she gave me a big tight hug and hopped on the camp bus looking so grown up and remarkably like a seasoned camper.
And then finally, after a long, anxiety-filled night that involves the whole family sleeping in one bed with no one actually sleeping at all, come The Camp Bus Stop Pics.
My newest, littlest guy needed a "buddy" to grow up with, trick-or-treat with, sleigh-ride with and ride the day camp bus with -- activities that my two older ones were now doing together.
Many kids take the camp bus, which picks up kids at a designated meeting spot.
The camp bus is much more fun than you may think.
