California Summer Camps - It can be fun growing up as a kid in California. It is one of the biggest state, and the opportunities for fun and adventure are tremendous. In my family, there was a tradition surrounding California summer camps. We are not one of these families that go to the same California summer camp year after year. I knew a lot of people like that, people whose uncles, aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers had all gone to one particular camp with some fake sounding Indian name. That was not my family at all. Our tradition was finding a new camp every year, one which offered exciting new possibilities.
The first summer camp California I went to was a fairly traditional one. It was a San Francisco summer camp, targeted towards elementary school kids like me, and had all of the standard activities. There was arts and crafts, waterfront sports, volleyball, tennis, and hiking. The hiking was my favorite. California summer camps have some of the best hiking in the world because California has some of the best outdoors in the world. We would hike for miles and miles along twisting trails through the woods. I now know that I was always within a mile of my California summer camp, but back then I felt like I was lost in the wilderness. It was exciting and a little bit scary. I loved every moment of it.
Of course, later on I went to California summer camps that were almost the opposite of this. Once I went to a California summer technology camp that was really cool. We got to play with supercomputers. It was in the early 90s, and computers were not as sophisticated as they are now. We got to see high tech graphic stations, huge liquid cooled supercomputers, and even a cyclotron! Of all of the California summer camps that I went to, I think it was my favorite. It really got me thinking about a career in technology. Many of the California summer camps are funded by the high-tech industry, so this was exactly what they intended. If it weren’t for this camp, I never would have discovered my lifelong passion for computers.
If you are thinking of sending your kid to California summer camps, do not settle on the first one you come across. There are so many different styles of camps out there that you should be able to find one that matches your child’s interests. Going to the right summer camp can be a rich and rewarding experience for any kid.
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