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beams together then once you get these things lashed up you want to find some Pine boughs or grass or bu D you just can't go why not I've been on thousands and thousands of camping troops with my mom and dad listen David next week the cabin can go on a camping trip and I like you take your stuff off to the side away from everybody else and so you can set up your own campsite how will that be no that's not good enough David you're too stubborn about this you should just forget about it I want to go out like The Big C kids David you don't understand even if I let you go right the camp director would never agree to this and if your parents found out we let you go out by yourself they just have a fit I'm going to write my parents and ask them for permission I think you should just forget about it listen I'm going to see you guys later okay I'm not too young I've been on millions of camping with my mom and dad but I think you're too young to go camping I'm not too young you can get lost or starve I'll bring food along you could be chased by a bear you could be bitten by a snake a million things could happen a beehive could fall on your shoulder and sting your head up you can fall in a hole and break your leg then what would you do you guys are just like Eddie you're afraid to go out camping so you give me this big lecture I'm going to go over and watch Al in the solo campers remember yesterday we did four today you're going to try to do one more cuz every day you're setting a new personal goal for yourself right that's good up again that's okay what's this got to do still camping well what do you think well I guess uh if something's running after you that wants to kill you um I guess you can climb up a tree and um and get away this helps you how about just the idea that uh you know what your own abilities are and so you have confidence in what you can do okay people that's enough of this let's do our jogs around the lake and go for a swim Al can I go too sure if you can keep up I can keep up go ahead oh D hi el hi Ken how's David well I don't know he just went off with the solo campers for three laps around the lake in a swim three laps can you do that well I don't know I really admire the kid he's persistent as anything has he been talking to you about the solo camping trip yeah he's he's mentioned it oh it's I like being alone it's different than being with other people but wouldn't you get bored all day by yourself well I might get bored but I could think of lots of things to do like what I could fish I could catch crayfish I could catch animals I could sleep I could build my own lean too I could do a lot of things Ken come on Ken haven't you ever had something you really want to do come on David let's go feed the pig but why all night David when you be you scared by yourself on the mountain no Ken I'd have a fire I really want to do it you can't always get to do the things you want David what if you get up there and change your mind I could come home couldn't I but with a fire up there I would be fine at night did I ever tell you about these guys David well no you didn't this is a racing pigeon I raised him from when he was a little baby banded his legs we race them in races as far as 500 mil away wow if you train them right they'll come back from that far take them out like 5 miles the first time 10 miles the second time you just have to train them I'm like one of those Visions what do you mean well if you let me go camping I would find my way back all by myself he you got a one track mod here hold him put your fingers through his legs can are these the kind of pigeons that can carry messages back home yeah why because if you let me go camping I can take one of these pigeons and I can send a message back to you telling me that I'm okay David what am I going to do about you you just won't give up one thing you want to make sure is that enough air can get underneath so that the fire will go for you and then once it's going you can put your heavier sticks on it this looks like it might work okay check these other fires hi dude I can I just got a call from your parent I guess you wrote them about going on this over yeah I did well they seem to think you can do it they did yeah but only for one night and very close to Camp oh why can't I go out like the big people do for longer you're really determined aren't you yeah well I've been thinking about it and uh I don't know can you light a fire you know when you go out on a solo you only got three matches yeah and you have to be able to do it with those three or you're messed up well I can do it with one well let's see if you can light a fire with one match David we got to let you go [Music] tomorrow I done laid around and stayed around this old town too long Summer's almost gone yeah win coming on around and stay around this old town too long and I like a got to [Music] travel [Music] Pap rides to Johnny Johnny can't come home Johnny can't come home no Johnny can't come home Papa rides to Johnny but Johnny can't come home and I feel feel like I got to travel [Music] long IID around and stay around this Old Town Al Summer's almost gone yeah Winter's coming on done laid around and stayed around this old town too long and I feel like I got a travel [Music] along there's the camp and I can't believe I got up here all by myself woohoo oh and I have to send my Patron message too hey what that what kind of snake is that a that's just a friendly Old King Snake like the ones we have around Camp he's not poisonous but I better not pick him up it's going to be fun up here with a fire what should I write I know dear kid I'm doing fine hope SK while I put this message on you good pigeon okay hold still bye-bye pigeon go I can do this on one match went up oh I'm sure I can do it on second hey it's going it's going good it's going keep it up keep it up oh it's going it's going up stay down down rats it went up one match left I have to do it on this one I'll get it this time okay Fire come on come on light light oh no it went out I don't have any more matches left what do I do oh well who needs a fire anyway have you ever had something you really wanted to do so bad that you decided just not to give [Music] up inside out is a series of programs and related m materials developed and supported by 32 educational agencies in the United States and Canada with additional support from Exxon Corporation this program was produced by wvt Northern Virginia educational television under the supervision of nit National instructional television