Every year, without fail for the past 18 years or so, a group of roughly the same people have made the annual trek to West Virginia for the annual Bridge Day festival that marks the completion of the New River Gorge Bridge.
Usually, just a handful of people actually camped, while others stayed in a motel room. But now, only a handful of people stay in motel rooms or cabins. The rest actually camp out in West Virginia's Wild and Wonderful wilderness.
The weather can be a little unpredictable. We've had all kinds of weather, usually the weather is good one year and bad the next. This year's weather wasn't the best to say the least, but if the company is good, which it always is, the weather is obsolete.
The company is precisely the reason that we come back every year. We don't come back to see the base jumpers, or the vendors, or the weather, or even the beautiful nature that surrounds us.
The people that come back every year genuinely enjoy each others' company, and for some, it's like a reunion. This past year, I got to see some old friends in which I hadn't seen in a couple years.
We laugh, eat, drink, hike, sit around a warm fire, sleep in tents and did I mention that we eat? Yeah we eat way too good to be in the woods.
I've had people ask me several times, why do ya'll keep going back year after year, and the answer is simply the company. I couldn't ask for a better group of people to go with and I can't wait till next mid-October.
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