Camping Without Walls

It was a sunny day, but I didn't feel the sun's shine.  I never left home without the other three siblings we were always glued to each others shadow.  I knew the day was coming like the warning from the principal's school letter informing my mother that I need more social skills.  So she agreed to send me off to summer camp.  It was a quiet breakfast before we headed to the old green painted station wagon.  It was my mother's first car and we thought it was a grand engine until my friend told me it was like the Brady Bunch.  But it took us where we no longer had to walk to the grocery store or laundry house.  We arrived at the landing as instructed in the directions to the pickup location.  She was always a tickler for following the rules so we drove exactly 25 mph and not a mile over.