Roughing It

Canopy

A younger version of your humble observer would have just donned his hiking shoes and started walking. Now he puts on the SPF50 sunscreen and sprays on the mosquito repellent. A GPS-enabled smartphone loaded with podcasts and fitness apps is another essential for the 21st-century incarnation of roughing it.

He threw caution to the winds and left behind his water bottle. John Muir would have been proud. © 2013 Stephen Yuen