About to reset my technological scale
With classes ended, massively annoying serials work at a stopping place, and sister's research trip winding down, it's time for the family vacation!! We're leaving tomorrow morning, driving to the Adirondacks, camping, doing a 2-3 day canoe trip. We are then headed up to Montreal for a weekend, along with my mom's brothers and their wives for the Scott annual Gene Pool trip.
This has been and is going to be fun for a large number of reasons.
1. We haven't been camping in a while, especially not for a week. We're getting out all the equipment, measuring ingredients into bags, and all the fun nostalgic stuff of my childhood. We're going to make quiche in a reflector oven, toast marshmallows over the fire, and have little apple pies in the pie iron and popcorn over the fire. We'll play frisbee and swim in the swimming hole.
2. We've never been to this area, so all new trails, maps, and other fun stuff.
3. I missed out on the family's Great Canoe Trip of a few years back on account of bad luck and other things. While the trip we take on this vacation won't be nearly as long or challenging, it'll be my first canoe-packing trip. You canoe across a lake, carry the canoe to the next lake(called a portage) and continue on. The lakes are close together, so this is actually feasible. There are places in the area where you can travel for days this way.
4. The Gene Pool trip is a chance to see relatives I don't see often, plus see Montreal which I haven't seen before. Plus another good thing, but one that's a secret. ; )
So after being immersed in the high-tech world of the internet, digital preservation, and other things, I'm resetting the scale. High-tech will now be the reflector oven, which you put facing a campfire, catching the heat and allowing you to bake in it. It will be my pocket knife, used for the low tech end: a sharpened stick to toast my marshmellows on.
This has been and is going to be fun for a large number of reasons.
1. We haven't been camping in a while, especially not for a week. We're getting out all the equipment, measuring ingredients into bags, and all the fun nostalgic stuff of my childhood. We're going to make quiche in a reflector oven, toast marshmallows over the fire, and have little apple pies in the pie iron and popcorn over the fire. We'll play frisbee and swim in the swimming hole.
2. We've never been to this area, so all new trails, maps, and other fun stuff.
3. I missed out on the family's Great Canoe Trip of a few years back on account of bad luck and other things. While the trip we take on this vacation won't be nearly as long or challenging, it'll be my first canoe-packing trip. You canoe across a lake, carry the canoe to the next lake(called a portage) and continue on. The lakes are close together, so this is actually feasible. There are places in the area where you can travel for days this way.
4. The Gene Pool trip is a chance to see relatives I don't see often, plus see Montreal which I haven't seen before. Plus another good thing, but one that's a secret. ; )
So after being immersed in the high-tech world of the internet, digital preservation, and other things, I'm resetting the scale. High-tech will now be the reflector oven, which you put facing a campfire, catching the heat and allowing you to bake in it. It will be my pocket knife, used for the low tech end: a sharpened stick to toast my marshmellows on.