Camping: The Techies vs. The Luddites
I'm camping this week at Sandbanks Provincial Park. Even though our site has no electricity, it's not exactly camping but more like outdoor living given there's pretty good cell coverage and two towns/civilization (Picton and Bloomfield) only 13 kilometers away. A personal highlight of the week-long ”adventure” (my wife is an enthusiastic camper; I'm a cottager) is visiting the Mustang Drive-In on the outskirts of Bloomfield. It's a real throw-back to the 1950s - family run, a traditional snack bar, an old bus that serves as a ticket office, and a movie projector with big film reels. I'm not sure why I find it so compelling - perhaps it's the novelty of a drive-in or maybe a refreshing change of pace from “normal” life. Another part of my temporary Luddite-like lifestyle is my wife's insistence on taking photos with 35mm film rather than a digital camera. She claims non-digital photos are sharper but this may have to do with the fact my Olympus digital camera is a few years ago. In contrast to the Mustang and our powerless camp site is another part of Sandbanks devoted to people with RVs. We took a bike ride through the site yesterday, and it seems pretty strange to see people setting up their satellite-TVs dishes. Of course, I'm blogging so perhaps the kettle shouldn't call the teapot black?!
August 24th, 2006 at 10:11 am
We were wondering how you were able to blog from a campsite with no power… My son still can't grasp the idea that Blackberry doesn't mean food anymore. We camped at a private area just outside Sandbanks a couple of weeks ago, at Edgewater Campground, and it offered free high-speed wireless internet! If only my laptop was waterproof, and the tent included a safe, had climate control… (I just left my computer at home.)
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