This past weekend, Dave Bonta posted a collection of one-line poems chronicling what folks did on their summer vacations. Fittingly enough, this past week J and I were on vacation, first in Los Angeles and then in Seattle, and one thing I didn’t do while we were gone was blog, Tweet, or post to Facebook, thereby bucking the trend of staying wired and connected on vacation by keeping intentionally out of reach. Night-owls say there will be plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead, and stone walruses like the ones that line the Arctic Building in downtown Seattle say there will be plenty of time to blog your vacation after you’re home and back online.
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Aug 17, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for the link. Yeah, disconnecting from the internet almost defines “vacation” these days for some of us. I felt much lighter back in May when I went to the U.K., didn’t blog, and only accessed the internet once a day, at most, on someone else’s machine.
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Aug 17, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Yeah, I rarely go online at all when I’m on vacation, and to me, that’s part of the relaxation.
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Aug 18, 2011 at 1:00 am
I love that building!
I try to break the online habit on vacations — for example, I didn’t take my computer when I went to Iceland recently. But then I used my partner’s, so I didn’t de-wire (unwire?) entirely. 🙂
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Aug 18, 2011 at 11:42 am
I couldn’t completely “unplug” on this vacation since I was still teaching online…but checking on my classes once a day still felt far less connected than blogging, Facebooking, Twittering, etc.
We went to three Red Sox games while we were in Seattle, and we saw lots of folks checking or posting to Facebook on their phones from the stands. If you can’t unplug during a ballgame, when can you unplug?
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Aug 19, 2011 at 11:46 am
Right ON!
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Aug 21, 2011 at 6:14 am
wow – you were here during our beautiful summer weather (warm, dry weather finally arrived!), and you went to boston RS ballgames instead of exploring the beautiful pacific NW?! what fans you guys must be!
*shaking my head!!* hope you had a great vacation, and i will look forward to hearing more about your west coast trip and seeing your photos.
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Aug 22, 2011 at 7:28 pm
We didn’t have a car, so we were limited to “urban hiking” around our downtown hotel. And we weren’t the only ones in town for the ballgames: our hotel was full of out-of-town Red Sox fans, as was the ballpark. Given the high price of Fenway Park tickets, “Red Sox Nation” is notorious for traveling to other, more affordable ballparks.
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