Fellow Eagle over here. Got to go to world jamboree in Japan for 4 weeks in 1970. I was 15 yrs old when I got mine. 8 of us in my troop were all rewarded and pinned on the same night.
damn 4 weeks that sounds like one heck of a trip , did you wear you uniform the whole time ? Scouting was a good thing back in the day, my father was the explorer troop leader and even when in scouts I got to tag along on canoe trips up to Algonguin Park in Canada. Wonder if they even have explorer scouts anymore.
That trip was a story in itself. Yes wore our uniforms pretty much all the time everywhere we went. I climbed Mt. Fuji as a lottery pull. 2 kids from each troop got to do it and I pulled the lucky straw. 12,389 feet and a monsoon rolled in. Never saw water drops the size of ball bearings going horizontal at 80 mph! Man, air was thin and rain stung like bee stings. Made it to the top though! But… that monsoon washed out the whole jamboree campground at the base of the mountain. We were all evacuated and put up in hotels and schools all around the area. So got to explore Tokyo for 5 days with no supervision. Those are memories I still to this day recollect on. I was wrong about one thing though. It was 1971 I went! Still have the windbreaker with the patches on it.
awesome story, thanks for telling.That trip was a story in itself. Yes wore our uniforms pretty much all the time everywhere we went. I climbed Mt. Fuji as a lottery pull. 2 kids from each troop got to do it and I pulled the lucky straw. 12,389 feet and a monsoon rolled in. Never saw water drops the size of ball bearings going horizontal at 80 mph! Man, air was thin and rain stung like bee stings. Made it to the top though! But… that monsoon washed out the whole jamboree campground at the base of the mountain. We were all evacuated and put up in hotels and schools all around the area. So got to explore Tokyo for 5 days with no supervision. Those are memories I still to this day recollect on. I was wrong about one thing though. It was 1971 I went! Still have the windbreaker with the patches on it.
I did the same. That’s how we bought our candy or paid our way into the movies - .50 in my small hometown. It included a small drink & popcorn.
Yeah, we’re just finishing up our rations.I vividly remember the Y2K millennium bug scare. Got up early on 01/01/2000 and fired up my Toshiba laptop expecting it to crash and burn and the world going out of control. Nothing. Learned about a simple date roll back fix and the problem was solved.
"Supposedly, on January 1, 2000, the world was going to be destroyed by a computer glitch known as the "Millennium Bug" also referred to as Y2K. This bug involved numerous computer systems misinterpreting the year 2000 as 1900"...
Millennium Bug - TV Tropes
And the cats ate the tinsel, that had a festive after effectAnnie reminded me of this one last night. Remember decorating the Christmas tree with those huge light bulbs? Then your parents would pass out boxes of tinsel and you'd all throw it all over the tree. It was so messy and you'd find tinsel all around the house in June.lol So glad they did away with that stuff.
We could get into the movies with 6 RC cola bottle caps On certain days .I did the same. That’s how we bought our candy or paid our way into the movies - .50 in my small hometown. It included a small drink & popcorn.
Yes sir!Mike, Remember these? I bet it looked like similar to pulling the string on these.
