Son and friends have a 'survival camp' in the woods.
Anytime he wants to go, he's allowed to, at least by me. Gets him off the iPhone for awhile. Wife gets nervous because it's in the middle of the woods.
However, if you drive two neighborhoods down, on an adjacent road you can actually "see" the survival camp from the houses (McMansions) in that neighborhood.
Even we IT geeks joke about not getting enough sun... but where does this whole social meme about technology being in contrast to nature come from? I'm telling you, whenever I'm either shore fishing our local reservoir or running around it's associated state forest, my smartphone's GPS and digital camera make the experience better.
Technology doesn't have to stand in contradiction to nature. It can be complimentary, especially a simple thing like a GPS unit. Seriously, those things help a TON.
I love hiking in remote areas. Beyond the beauty, I enjoy the feeling of expansion. Generally I am so tightly focused that outdoor activities give my mind (and eyesight) a much needed opportunity to go into panoramic landscape mode.
By the way, I loved the interior design of the room with the fireplace.
I also liked the advice about stopping and sitting/standing in one place for 20 minutes. The tendency is, when out in the woods, to keep tramping along.
We just got a house in the country with a wooded back yard. I'm afraid to go exploring as I saw deer running around. And there are a lot of trees with branches that could fall on my head. But I do enjoy the quietness.
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But I can do a Google image search on trees right here at my computer. If I go outside I have to worry about hard, pointy rocks!
Son and friends have a 'survival camp' in the woods.
Anytime he wants to go, he's allowed to, at least by me. Gets him off the iPhone for awhile. Wife gets nervous because it's in the middle of the woods.
However, if you drive two neighborhoods down, on an adjacent road you can actually "see" the survival camp from the houses (McMansions) in that neighborhood.
I think he'll live.
Even we IT geeks joke about not getting enough sun... but where does this whole social meme about technology being in contrast to nature come from? I'm telling you, whenever I'm either shore fishing our local reservoir or running around it's associated state forest, my smartphone's GPS and digital camera make the experience better.
Technology doesn't have to stand in contradiction to nature. It can be complimentary, especially a simple thing like a GPS unit. Seriously, those things help a TON.
When you bring a class of kids outside to learn, ADD wins.
I love hiking in remote areas. Beyond the beauty, I enjoy the feeling of expansion. Generally I am so tightly focused that outdoor activities give my mind (and eyesight) a much needed opportunity to go into panoramic landscape mode.
I have a number of arguments against going outside, so it's easy for me to adopt one more: I can experience it all via technology.
To see a thing - such as a tree for instance - as a "tourist" is, somehow, to dispense with it.
I guess what I'm saying is...I think this deserves the "travel" tag.
By the way, I loved the interior design of the room with the fireplace.
I also liked the advice about stopping and sitting/standing in one place for 20 minutes. The tendency is, when out in the woods, to keep tramping along.
I'd be afraid of ticks. Lyme disease is a bitch.
We just got a house in the country with a wooded back yard. I'm afraid to go exploring as I saw deer running around. And there are a lot of trees with branches that could fall on my head. But I do enjoy the quietness.
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