Last calendar week I did n’t take my e - postal service .
For an full week — the first such week I ’ve had since May 2000 — I was without my laptop . I went on vacation , up into theSierra Nevada mountains , toThe Lair of the Bear .
It was peaceable , the kids had a great prison term , and we meet a whole bunch of courteous people . However , in accept this trip I did discover one affair about camping amid the magniloquent evergreen that I had n’t eff before : it ’s all about the iPods .
If I had to reckon , I ’d say that there was at least one iPod in every single tent cabin at the Lair . As I walk through camp , I was never out of hearing space of someone ’s iPod . From the cabin just downhill from us waftedJamie Cullum ’s coverof Radiohead ’s “ high-pitched and Dry ” powered by aniPod nanoin aBose SoundDock . Just uphill ? Why bless my stars , that ’s Richard Thompson ’s “ 1952 Vincent Black Lightning ” coming from aJBL fauna IIspeaker set . And just around the bend there ’s something — I ’m notquitesure what — blaring from anAltec Lansing inMotionset .
Here be iPods .
See ? I can flee my MacBook and still not flee Apple , because the iPod is apparently the tune - role player of alternative even when you ’re out in the stick . No marvel the clever child at the Lair made a iPod - theme t - shirt this yr .
For the record , Ididcontribute to the noise contamination a little chip myself , broadcasting someFountains of Waynevia myTivoli Audio chum . But I have to admit my PAL was severely outclassed . Next yr it’siPod Hi - Fitime .
It just goes to show you that hiding out in the mountains , amid the fresh air and streams stale with run coke , will not economise you from the speech sound of someone else ’s favorite euphony .
But you want to know the worst thing ? The most devious , nefarious , underhanded affair about the whole vacation ? It wrench out there was wireless Internet approach uncommitted at the camp office .
I ’m not certain I ’ll really bring my MacBook with me next yr to inner circle ; but I ’ll distinguish you this — Iknowmy iPod will be coming along for the ride .
