Camping / writing.

[xoagray]

 I wrote this a few months ago, but forgot to post it. While it's no longer just becoming autumn, the rest of it still applies, so I'm posting it now.

Camping. 

I really kinda' want to take a trip and go camping. And just bring either my pens and some paper, or this tablet and enough battery to keep it charged for the duration. I'd like to see what happens if I just go somewhere and live a simpler life. Somewhere in the wilderness where I can disconnect from the chronically online life and focus on just getting some of the ideas and stuff that are in my head out. 

I'm reminded of Thoreau and his cabin in the woods where he went on retreat and wrote Walden. Something like that sounds really appealing to me. Just being able to concentrate on the simple things in life, and writing. As well, its been a really long time since I got out into nature, even a little. Over 20 years. I think the last time I went camping was in the early 2000's, and even that was only a few times. I'm not even sure where the good spots to camp down here are anymore. But as we head into the fall season and, (hopefully,) cooler temperatures it couldn't hurt to look. 

I remember back near where I used to live in NY, there were places where I could rent a small, simple cabin for a short time. Something like that might be a good starting point. I could work out of a tent if I was just going for a weekend or something, but if I wanted to spend a little longer something a little more solid would be best. Something like that would probably also have at least a small desk or room for one inside. They have the same thing down here, some places even let you rent by the month. I'd love to do that if I could afford it. Just rent a cabin for a month and spend that time mostly writing. 

I'm not sure if / when I'll get to actually do something like that, but it's a nice little dream, the biggest hurdle to jump over to make this happen is just finding the time to do it.