Camp Dorothy’s doing a road trip this weekend. The camp director is taking the camp’s namesake to Pipestone Minnesota for….are you ready for this…her 67th high school class reunion.

While the camp director is game to go, Dorothy’s been raising objections since the invitation arrived in the mail 6 months ago. The most consistently-voiced objections are:

1. I won’t remember anyone. To which the camp director responded, “Since everyone there will be 85, you’ll all be in the same boat.”
2. My high school experience wasn’t all that fun. Camp director countered with, “Maybe after 67 years, it’s time to change that.
3. I don’t want to go. To which the camp director said, “You’re alive. You’re able to go. You’re going.”

Yes, the camp director is on the hard-nosed side, but believe me, she learned the skill from a master. But the camp director is not heartless, so she’s arranged a Thelma and Louise kinda road trip over the weekend. No encounters at seamy, roadside bars, mind you. But there will be stops at Dorothy’s niece’s house in Storm Lake, an overnight stay with her sister in Le Mars, and a night at the home of a Pipestone nephew.

However, an attempted car leap over the Pipestone National Monument quarry has been forfeited in lieu of the reunion dinner Saturday night and a brunch Sunday morning. Following the brunch these two Thelma and Louise wannabe’s will make the 5 1/2 return trip home, just in time for Wheel of Fortune.

Now does that sound like a hard-nosed camp director to you?