First and foremost, we built Ogichi’s entire campus: over 30 buildings and a tapestry of docks, pathways and landscaping to tie them all together.

This May, I will once again pack my three outfits—work Carhartts, evening Carhartts, and going-to-town Levi’s—and, with the faithful Jasper, head north.

In the early 2000s, a small group of people had a dream based on the belief that girls would find joy in the same wilderness trips and in-camp experiences offered to boys at Camp Kooch-i-ching.

Why move to a bohemian surf town on the west coast of Mexico? Isn’t that something kids do right out of college? Not a forty-something couple with three daughters.