Last week we were in Boston visiting some friends and the sites. The first thing we did was drive straight to Walden Pond. Visiting Walden Pond has always been a dream of mine.We pulled up around 6:30 pm so the park offices were closed. The trail maps were also gone. But we consulted a map on a board to locate the site of Thoreau's cabin. Then we set off into the woods.
Trouble was, the trails weren't marked very well and we got to a fork in the path not knowing which way to go. Blast those trail maps being gone!
Pausing, I pulled out my iPhone and Googled "walden pond park trail map." And up popped the park site with the downloadable PDF of the map. I downloaded it and we found our way to the cabin.
While I consulted the map with the boys I quipped to Jana, "How ironic that I'm going to Thoreau's cabin following a map I downloaded on my iPhone." Laughing, Jana snapped a picture to commemorate the moment.
Here's some more iphone irony--my brother, Jon Camp (who you might know), whipped his out (still in the wild) after killing his first deer to watch a youtube video on how to gut it. So...you could say we go to our phones to live deliberately?
ReplyDeleteI shall be telling this with a sigh
ReplyDeleteSomewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I pulled out my iPhone and Googled,
And that has made all the difference.