Travel arrangements
Please make certain that you send in your travel form on time! (And, it must be sent on time for you to qualify for the $100 rebate.) Include pertinent cell phone numbers, if possible. If you’re traveling by public transit, pack any medications and other essentials in your carry-on luggage in case your checked baggage is lost.
Plan on arriving and leaving when everyone else does.
Every once in a while someone informs us casually, during camp, that they will be leaving a couple days early to attend a soccer tournament or some such. Or, their parent calls on the first day to say that their little Johnny won’t actually be showing up until the 3rd day. This doesn’t work for us (or for everybody else in your advisee group, etc.). We already said that in our brochure, but we’re just reminding you again. NBTSC is a one- or two-week event, not well-suited to part-time attendance, except and unless in those rare instances that we make a special agreement with a camper ahead of time. (A note to all the extra-polite people in our universe: we do make special agreements in advance when there's good cause, so don't hesitate to ask!) (When someone finds during the week that the camp experience is just not working for them, that’s another matter.)
Although we no longer hound campers for travel information, consequences still apply.
If you send us your travel information on time, we will gladly reserve bus or van space for you and expect you to show up where you said, check up on late flight information (etc.) that you’ve provided if you’re not there, have a staff person with a car wait behind for you if necessary, and do everything in our power to get you to camp, assuming you haven’t made a major mistake on your end like forgetting to catch your train. (You will get on our bad side quickly if you give us your travel information but then change your plans without notifying us.) If you don’t send in your travel info on time, instead of calling you and leaving dozens of messages and spending lots of time or money trying to track you down (as we have sometimes done in the past), we will simply expect you to show up at Camp Myrtlewood or Farm & Wilderness at the start of camp, and welcome you with the usual friendly hug when you get there. If you show up at one of our bus/van locations instead, you will be given a seat if (and only if) there is room for you. If there isn’t a bus seat for you, it is entirely your own responsibility to get yourself to camp. This might mean taking a greyhound bus 70 miles south to Roseburg and hiring a taxi to drive the 55 miles west from there. (55 miles in a taxi is not normally a bargain.)
Travel directory
When you login to your account, you can click on the “travel” tab to view the travel directory. This lists all of the people who are registered at this point and who agree to be included in the directory. If there’s no note by someone’s name, you can still contact them to suggest shared travel; they just didn’t tell us to say anything particular about their plans.
Oregon Session 1 travel information
Oregon Session 2 travel information
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