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24th WSJ - North America

Day 20 & 21 – Homeward Bound

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Day 19 – Niagara Falls

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Day 18 – Georgian Bay

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Day 17 – The Wheels on the Bus….

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Day 16 – Baseball

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Day 15 – Exploring Washington DC

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Day 10 – A walk around the lake

By Alastair on Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Woke at 6am with a phone call from the UK 😁 not important so went back to sleep for an hour before getting up. Half the Unit were going offsite rafting today they left and few others went off to take part in the activities. I decided it was time to do some washing. Myself …

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Day 9 – Exploring World Point

By Alastair on Monday, July 29, 2019

Breakfast as usual, although we are finding that we are struggling to get some basic food supplies like bread and milk. It turns out that the US have based the food their National Jamboree and of course didn’t take into account that the UK and a lot of the Europeans do not live on Egg …

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Day 8 – Mount Jack

By Alastair on Sunday, July 28, 2019

Today was Mount Jack, this is a onsite activity at the top of Mount Jack. after breakfast and filling up with Powerade we set off. The hole to the top was about 3 miles and took us about an hour, luckily most of the trail was in the woods as the whole B Basecamp of …

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Day 7 – Culture Day and Unity Show

By Alastair on Sunday, July 28, 2019

Friday was a later start as it’s culture Day and there are no activities being run today. It was Patrol’s D Duty day so they started breakfast. We have 4 Patrols of 9 Scouts each including 2 Patrol Leaders. Each Patrol takes a day being the duty patrol, this involves them deciding the meals for …

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Day 6 – Exploring & Basecamp Bash

By Alastair on Friday, July 26, 2019

The Explorers were keen to get up early this morning as they wanted to head to the activities before the queues started to form. So a quick cereal breakfast and they were out. Myself, Alex and Chris decided to go out Exploring so headed off to see what we could find. Heading over the Consol …

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Day 5 – Gateway & Gadgets

By Alastair on Friday, July 26, 2019

Getting used to these 7 o’clock starts as the camp starts to wake up. It was another cold night and the cloud was low across the subcamp. We went shopping agin with a couple of the Explorers fo our days supplies. The shop is a rather large tent that looks after all of BaseCamp B. …

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Day 4 – Opening Ceremony

By Alastair on Thursday, July 25, 2019

Up at 7:00 and it was still raining! Myself, Chris, Gareth and Alex went shopping it wasn’t as manic as the day before so we stocked up for the day and headed back to camp. Breakfast was cereal pots, surprisingly nice and easy. The explorers then set off to explore the site as it was …

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Day 3 – Arrival Day

By Alastair on Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Awake a 7:30 so almost a lie in, then packed and went down to meet the rest of the Unit who ere gathering outside the University Hall. Being sat around isn’t something the Explorers do well so they decided on an impromptu game of volley ball, but Gareth and Chris appeared with a smoothie each …

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Day 2 – New York

By Alastair on Wednesday, July 24, 2019

So up early at 5:30 so we could sort ourselves out as our bus was due to leave the University at 7:40. We waited around before being called forward for breakfast, just a grab and go box containing a muffin and some Philadelphia Cheese then headed for the bus. We were now on Jamboree time …

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Day 1 – Travel Day

By Alastair on Tuesday, July 23, 2019

So after 2 years of planning its finally Jamboree time and today, 20th July is the day we set off for 3 weeks of adventure. Alarm was set for 7 but I was wide awake at 6 if not before, excitement, anxiety or maybe a bit of both. I arrived at the Stanley’s HQ at …

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About Me

Hi, I'm Alastair or Ali, I'm a Scout Leader from the UK. My current adventure is to be part of team leading 36 amazing Young People from Gloucestershire to the World Scout Jamboree being held in the USA in July & August 2019. Please excuse any poor grammar, spelling or typos, I’m sat in a field doing the blog on my phone or iPad šŸ˜€.

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  • Day 19 – Niagara Falls
  • Day 18 – Georgian Bay
  • Day 17 – The Wheels on the Bus….
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