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[quote=Anonymous]When I was 15, I went with a youth group across the US for 5 weeks.   There were 40 of us plus 6 chaperones on a bus.  We had 10 tents, 4 cook stoves and mess kits, and we traveled across the country, camping (mostly) and staying at youth hostels and other places that would put us up for the night.  We had to cook and shop for ourselves (we were given money each week to go to a store) in our "cook groups" of 5 girls and 5 boys each, and did our laundry in our "tent groups" about once a week at a laundromat.   We saw the sights, hiked, visited cities. It was awesome.  When we got to a city, the bus would pull up into the downtown area and they dropped us off and told us when and where to meet the bus.  No cell phones!!   We got our mail at "Mail Drops" along the way, and made a few collect calls from payphones, probably at the laundromat.

Does anything remotely like this exist nowadays?   I can't take my son on a cross country trip, but would love for him to go and see it with other teens.  We can't afford anything like the fancy "teen luxury" programs I see advertised, or Outward Bound type stuff.   This was budget, but really fun and a great maturing experience. Going away to college was a piece of cake after this.[/quote]

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