Unplugged

[Uncertain]

Challenge yourself to live like the Amish.Void of all electronic devices for a year.You would be allowed to have a car though and a land line.Just think of all the money you could save.

My livelihood is based upon access to the internet, I would go broke living like the Amish. Even this week cost me money, but it was well worth the price.

[missmuffet]

Most of us are totally dependant on our electrical devices.We are all plugged in.How are we going to survive if there is ever an EMP?And that could very well happen.

[Willa]

We loved camping at the beach where it was in the 70s by day and 60s by night when they weren't so crowded.  But I insist on hot water for showering and washing my hair.  Call it glamping if you wish.  I have got too many headaches trying to wash my hair in glacier fed streams!  Hubby is very happy going without bathing and all and will even sleep in the car if need be.     

Too often today we aren't allowed to build campfires due to fire danger.  I can't even get our coleman stove hot enough to boil water or to heat it to wash dishes in high altitudes.  So no coffee.  At least a camp site with electrical hook up lets me use my electric fry pan and coffee maker.  But we do enjoy being out and away from civilization to do some bird watching and wildlife photography.  The sound of breezes in the trees, a nearby gurgling stream and birds singing is so relaxing.  Some of our best times of communication have been while he was driving.  

And our sons' favorite memories were at the beech, playing UNO by coleman lantern and trying to dunk each other in the surf, or our Boston Terrier chasing an empty pop bottle up the beech that the wind was driving along.  

We honeymooned in a tent.  We slept across the tent door to keep our toddlers from escaping at night.  Family camping has been a way of life by choice for us even though we did later get a basic tent trailer.  Being able to open all the flaps and windows kept it cool and crisp at night, unlike motor homes and trailers that are like sardine cans and never cool off without a noisy air conditioner.  

[other one]

http://s30.photobucket.com/user/otherone999/slideshow/beaversbend

 

 

 

My favorite fishing place.  Normally we would be in the RV, but this trip all the RV places were full and we had to stay in a cabin....

[missmuffet]

http://s30.photobucket.com/user/otherone999/slideshow/beaversbend

 

 

 

My favorite fishing place.  Normally we would be in the RV, but this trip all the RV places were full and we had to stay in a cabin....

Gorgeous place. 

[1x1is1]

http://s30.photobucket.com/user/otherone999/slideshow/beaversbend

 

 

 

My favorite fishing place.  Normally we would be in the RV, but this trip all the RV places were full and we had to stay in a cabin....

 

Drop me off at pictures #16,17 & 18.  Leave me there for an 8 hour nap!

[walla299]

You guys must be from a totally different generation lolllzzzz

 

Why would you say that? There are some of us who don't see a need to be connected 24/7. I've lived quite happily without FaceBook & much of the other social media that so many seem to be addicted to.

[missmuffet]

 

You guys must be from a totally different generation lolllzzzz

 

Why would you say that? There are some of us who don't see a need to be connected 24/7. I've lived quite happily without FaceBook & much of the other social media that so many seem to be addicted to.

 

I did not know which way to take it.Either that we are old school and not into technology or that we are spoiled living in the U.S. I once worked with a lady who was from Africa.She told me that she thought Americans were spoiled and that we took for granted the things that her people only dreamed of having.

[other one]

 

http://s30.photobucket.com/user/otherone999/slideshow/beaversbend

 

 

 

My favorite fishing place.  Normally we would be in the RV, but this trip all the RV places were full and we had to stay in a cabin....

 

Drop me off at pictures #16,17 & 18.  Leave me there for an 8 hour nap!

 

I watched a guy catch a 33 inch long rainbow trout just below that low water dam....    took him about three hours to get him in hand.....     we were camped about 50 yards upstream from there.    It is the most beautiful place I've ever been camping, and we used to spend five or six weeks a year there back when few people knew it was there.      Texans finally figured out it was there and fills the place up in the summer time so we go further north.   Not as pretty, but the fishing is good.

[missmuffet]

I would like it if no one else was there