Each summer, usually during June or July, my family and friends and I come to Imperial Beach, California, where we spend a week at the shore.
When we started this tradition back in the mid-90s there were just four of us. And we all fit into one unit. This year we counted over 42 participants, and it took 10 units to accommodate everyone.
While I was grateful for our trips that started over 20 years ago, I'm even more grateful today. Because today the company is a lot larger, and some of the staff members come along on this trip. And we leave behind the ones who are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be able to do things we're doing this week.
This trip is an example of the fruits of sobriety and recovery. While sometimes it takes nearly a year of planning to put these trips together before we got sober our idea of a long-range plan was how to get enough drugs or alcohol in us to make it through a day.
Life certainly changes for the better once we get into recovery.
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