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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the age when people cannot disconnect.  Ever.  It used to be that you'd go on vacation for a week or two and your only contact with the world you left behind was sending a postcard.  Now, when even state and national parks are adding wi-fi, it's getting very hard for people to not be tempted to get online.  Heck, I've never been able to understand the throngs of people who go to to a beach house for a week and sit and watch Direct TV, get online, play video games, etc.  Why not just sit at home and do that?  People don't understand the benefits of TRULY disconnecting.  No phones, no TV, no internet, no knowledge of the news.  It's healing to make that kind of escape.  And it's sad that few people treasure that.  But to each their own.[/quote]

ITA.  So nice to realize that there are kindred souls out there.  I love DC, it's my home, but I feel so hyper-connected here.  I'm really "at peace" in the summer, when my family is in upstate NY at our cottage on one of the Finger Lakes.  I'm blissfully unaware of what's going on in the news, don't watch TV, check email maybe twice a week at the library in town.  I feel so rested and connected to what's IMPORTANT... my family, nature, the water, the rising and setting of the sun.  It is healing as you said, PP.  And it's such a stark contrast from my normal life, but I love it.  As I grow older I feel like I need more of these Walden/Thoreau types of escapes.  Def no posting to FB during this time.  I fear that this type of respite is foreign concept to most busy busy busy go go go Americans. [/quote]

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