London Sundbeck’s name was on the Camp Mystic waitlist before she was even born. Her mother, Lora Birney, had cherished the all-girls camp tucked along the Guadalupe River in Texas since her own summers there in the early ’90s. To her, it wasn’t just a camp—it was a rite of passage, a memory-maker, a legacy to pass on to her only daughter.
“I always go back to the first time London went to camp,” Lora says. “When she came home, she pulled me aside and said, ‘Mom, why didn't you ever tell me how amazing camp is?’ I said, you can't explain it. People don't get it. And until you go, you just don't get it.”
