Where do you go to retreat from the Information age?

[Ronstang]

If I want to get away I simply go to my lakehouse on Lake Livingston. It is beautiful and quite, rather removed from civilization as I know it where I live most of the time. I have satellite TV but that is it. If I am home and want to get away I simply go into the garage and work on one of my car projects or do someother project around the house. Yesterday I was home half the day yet never even sat down at the computer.....it is possible folks.

 

[ironcrotch]

Go on vacation. Seriously. It's amazing how visiting another culture and a way of life can totally flip the way you view life upside down.

 

[Specop 007]

My garage, my driveway or the shooting range.

Woodworking, washing my car and shooting are zen activities for me.

 

[SketchMaster]

Back when I lived in N.H, there was a lake not more than a mile from my house. I would ride my bike down there and sit on a rock overlooking the lake that was shaded by trees. Real nice spot to just go and think.

Link.

 

[Neurorelay]

Turn everything off...and sit in the dark and chill.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: sixone
Jane Austen novels.

Translation: Hi, I'm a pretentious poseur!

You didn't get your digs in, in the other thread? You've got to come attack me here, too?

 

[Leper Messiah]

I go up north. No Internet, Nextel doesn't have service up there, only 30 or so channels on the TV...right on a lake. 2 weeks of paradise.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: sixone
You didn't get your digs in, in the other thread? You've got to come attack me here, too?

Extended thread diversion (which I started), part lebenty-deux: Your protests ring hollow to me, given your web wide campaign of vitriol against me. Let me put it this way: At least I'm not registering as sixone here or anywhere else in order to augment an extensive campaign of personal attacks against me both under your own nick, and if that weren't enough, mine. Unlike you.

That said, it takes two to tussel, and I stand guilty, so I will cease, as it serves no good or healthy purpose. Will you?

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming: I have always escaped the madding crowd by taking my hound (or hounds) deep into the woods. Knowing a woods through all four seasons is an intimate relationship that can stir your soul and gratify beyond belief.

I have also always had a deep connection to bodies of water, from the elfin-spirit like rush of a stream in the woods to the systole-diastole mother womb heartbeat of an ocean's waves gently landing ashore.

And I LOVE vistas -- those vantage points from which the world opens up before you like a gift directly from God.

Meteor showers (falling stars, quick, make a wish!) and the ever changing, nature's own light show of lightning bugs in the woods by the stream in my backyard, against the perfect screen of no artificial light blackness, tickles my inner child.

Desert in our American Southwest, all gorgeous rust red splashed, wind eroded shapes -- yet another gift from Gaia. Stand or sit anywhere in the seemingly deserted desert long enough and you will marvel at all the actual life you will finally see scuttling about their business.

Hey, walking through a city in that almost perfect late afternoon light -- so neutral and pure -- and catching the odd architectual detail fashioned by some other human who lived and loved and hoped and then moved on -- decades or centuries before -- is yet another admission free treasure.

There is EVERYWHERE to go to excape the cold digital reduction, parts woefully lesser than the whole, of the Information Age.

And, hey, sixone, Jane Austen's keenly detailed eye into the human experience is a refuge surely equal to all the rest. Ok enough?

 

[DnetMHZ]

I go to a bar.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
I go to a bar.

Me too!

 

[Kelemvor]

I read a book. Maybe that's why I like Sci-Fi/Fantasy books. It's all swords and magic, no guns or technology.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I don't retreat from the Information age, ever.

I find it hard to go a day without internet access, let alone all technology.

 

[secretanchitman]

hang out with friends, read a book, organize stuff, play with the dog.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: sixone
You didn't get your digs in, in the other thread? You've got to come attack me here, too?

Extended thread diversion (which I started), part lebenty-deux: Your protests ring hollow to me, given your web wide campaign of vitriol against me. Let me put it this way: At least I'm not registering as sixone here or anywhere else in order to augment an extensive campaign of personal attacks against me both under your own nick, and if that weren't enough, mine. Unlike you.

That said, it takes two to tussel, and I stand guilty, so I will cease, as it serves no good or healthy purpose. Will you?

...

And, hey, sixone, Jane Austen's keenly detailed eye into the human experience is a refuge surely equal to all the rest. Ok enough?

Guilty as charged. Did you notice that it ceased nearly as soon as it began? While the other issue I brought to your attention weeks ago has continued - will it be addressed as well?

 

[mercanucaribe]

I don't retreat from technology.

 

[GoPackGo]

Leave the cell phone at home once in a while....it does wonders.

We all lived so nicely without them.

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
can't remember the last time I was cut off from everything. Between the amount of info flowing through at work and being attached to the Blackberry after work, makes it a bit difficult.

FSCK Blackberry's. My boss once asked if I'd like to have one. I told him if he bought me one I'd quit. When I leave work, I am LEAVING WORK. The day it starts following me home is the day I set it on fire.

I don't get much of an opportunity to retreat due to having two small kids, but occassionally I get to go to my FIL's cabin and go jet skiing. I've gone through two bills in a weekend just on the gasoline... but you know what, I would have paid TWICE that for that kind of relaxation. Just don't tell the Saudis.

 

[FoBoT]

one of you is the unibomber , me thinks

 

[Stuxnet]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Go on vacation. Seriously. It's amazing how visiting another culture and a way of life can totally flip the way you view life upside down.

The Mayan Ruins in Mexico did this for me...

I walked away from that experience just like... " wow "

That's my special place when people start pissing me off.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I don't retreat from technology.

I'm waiting for WOW's servers to get back from maintenance

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: JEDI
I goto starbucks, buy a coffee and relax for a few hrs (no Tmobile wireless sub). i either bring a book/mag to read, or buy a newspaper here.

What/where do you go to retreat from the Information age?

I have not felt the need to do escape. In fact I want more!

 

[poopaskoopa]

Go camping, drink, and shoot at stuff. Although drinking usually comes after the shooting.

 

[Eeezee]

I go play video games on a smaller TV

 

[Lola]

i second going on vacation.
I make sure that i relax that way... there is no access to internet or anything.
that is the best thing for me. other than that, i will just look at all our old photos and remember how i felt at that time.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

<-- Golf Course.