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| Beach Camping Trip 2012, Ben Horne Memorial |
The Summer of 2012 was the third year in which the Young Adult Group at UCSD Newman Center Catholic Community has put on a beach camping trip. Previously, they had been ways to camp out by the beach, surf, eat a lot, and hang out toward the end of Summer before the school year started up again. Ben had planned the previous two, and he had reserved the campsites for this Summer also.
Ben's cousin Crescent, his wife, and two kids came. On the way there, their surfboards flew off the car and disappeared somewhere along I5 freeway! They were driving Ben's old, blue, Subaru Wagon with those distinct bumper stickers - KTRU, "Anti Popo, Pro Papa", etc.
I rode my bike there from work. I had to ride through Camp Pendleton in the dark, lost my way a few times, but I ultimately found our camping spot. By the time I got there, people had eaten already but they were sitting around the campfire talking with Crescent about Ben - a different side a Ben that most of us had never heard about. Cousin Ben.
In the morning, we snapped a picture, and headed back. I rode back to Carlsbad. It was in the 90s even near the ocean, and over 100 when I was on the base and inland a little. Sitting around the fire with Ben's cousin sharing memories was fun. Continuing a tradition that Ben started two years ago felt like we were Maintaining the Light in our own small way.
