I posted quite a while ago about my plans for my birthday and the week after it, being a camping trip down the river.  I also mused about the fact that I would be purposefully depriving myself of electronic gadgets for a week, which is well and truly outside my comfort zone.

The lack of updates weren’t because I went mad and became a hermit, but merely because real life got in the way of doing other things.  However I can update on how the river trip went.

It didn’t.  Well, sort of.  For the first time in four months, there was rain up in that area, and so I spent a sum total of two and a half days and one night in the “wilderness”.  Getting to my chosen camp site involved a few kilometers along clay tracks and then a drive along a sandbar, so when it started to rain constantly I took the choice to get out before I was stuck there for a week.

So, that would suggest a lack of evidence that I can stand being without electrical powered gadgets for a long period.  Hell, while I was back at my parents place waiting for the rain to subside I spent the hours watching Blu-Ray movies and playing the DS.  What I can tell you is that as soon as I have the chance to do it again, I’m going to pack up the tent and head down there.  Even for the brief period, I was relaxed.  Sitting on a sandbar in the sun, reading a book at watching fish jump in the river is fantastic, and greatly preferrable to sitting in an office all day.  Unfortunately it doesn’t pay the bills..