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+title: Survival Journal - Introduction
+---
+
+This article is an introduction to the history of a month of my life
+from July 24, 1973, to August 24, 1973. Officially, the experience was
+titled "Youth Acculturation Course" hosted by Brigham Young University.
+Unofficially, I always call it the desert survival course. The
+experience had such a strong impact on my life that I want to include it
+in its entirety in my life history. The following set of articles are
+almost verbatim copies of the journal I kept while attending the course.
+Other articles in this book are based on specific events from the course
+and have been embellished by my memory after more than 40 years have
+elapsed. (See [Melody's Malady](/stories/11_Melodys_Malady.html) and [Chocolate Waterfalls](/stories/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.html)).
+
+The events that led to my signing up for this course are unique. My
+brother Tom and I attended a fireside that was designed as a recruiting
+tool to attract students to take the course during their summer break.
+We were both quite captured by the grand sense of adventure the
+presentation portrayed and signed up to take the course together. It
+turned out that Tom dropped the course for reasons unknown to me, but I
+chose to take it without his companionship. I was planning to go on my
+mission at the end of the summer and hoped it would be a good
+character-building experience that would serve me well in the mission
+field. Before I left home to go take this course, I had received my
+mission call and knew I would be going to Brazil a few months after
+returning.
+
+Below I include two maps to pinpoint the location in Southeastern Utah
+where the course was held. The first shows the general area relative to
+familiar large cities in the state of Utah.
+
+![](md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction-media/media/image1.jpeg){width="6.958333333333333in"
+height="6.958333333333333in" alt=""}
+
+The map below shows a more detailed zoom-in of the route we took from
+start to finish.
+
+![](md/13_Survival_Journal_Introduction-media/media/image2.jpeg){width="7.083333333333333in"
+height="5.087740594925634in" alt=""}
+
+We started at Keg Knoll and ended in the town of Boulder. The total
+length of the trek was a little over 250 miles.
+
+## Calendar View
+July 24 to August 24, 1973
+
+<table><tbody>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td style="background: yellow">24</td>
+    <td style="background: yellow">25</td>
+    <td style="background: green">26</td>
+    <td style="background: green">27</td>
+    <td style="background: green">28</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td style="background: ">29</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">30</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">31</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">1</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">2</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">3</td>
+    <td style="background: aqua">4</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td style="background: ">5</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">6</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">7</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">8</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">9</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">10</td>
+    <td style="background: magenta">11</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td style="background:">12</td>
+    <td style="background: darkcyan">13</td>
+    <td style="background: red">14</td>
+    <td style="background: red">15</td>
+    <td style="background: red">16</td>
+    <td style="background: red">17</td>
+    <td style="background: red">18</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td style="background: darkolivegreen">19</td>
+    <td style="background: darkolivegreen">20</td>
+    <td style="background: darkolivegreen">21</td>
+    <td style="background: darkgray">22</td>
+    <td style="background: gray">23</td>
+    <td style="background: darkblue">24</td>
+    <td style="background: ">25</td>
+  </tr>
+</tbody></table>
+
+<span style="background: yellow">Instruction</span><br>
+<span style="background: green">Impact</span><br>
+<span style="background: aqua">Group Exp.</span><br>
+<span style="background: magenta">Survival</span><br>
+<span style="background: darkcyan">Forced march</span><br>
+<span style="background: red">Student Exp.</span><br>
+<span style="background: darkolivegreen">Solo</span><br>
+<span style="background: darkgray">Rappel, testimony Mtg.</span><br>
+<span style="background: gray">Run-in, bus ride home</span><br>
+<span style="background: darkblue">Party</span><br>
+
+The next 5 articles describe each week separately. I hope they don't put
+you to sleep.