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Into the Wilderness


strawberry mountain
Originally uploaded by Hedgetoad.

I'm off for the annual family reunion in the wild's of eastern Washington. No TV, radio, cell phones, computers or news of the outside world. (every year, it get's a little hard to leave it all....) This will be a good thing because I have several books that I want to finish reading and need to finish reading, could possibly do some planning for the coming year (probably not), and be generally relaxed. It's also good because I'm sitting around waiting for a phone call that does not seem to be coming any time soon, and I'm not really sure it should be coming soon but really want it to come soon - how's that for cryptic? Yeah. Anyhoo, it's not coming this week so I might as well go to place where I have to hike 3 miles up and climb up a particular rock to get a cell signal where messages can be checked. At least I'll be doing something productive with the waiting time.

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