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Camping With Nietzsche

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I have had a great summer thus far. The week before last I was camping high in the mountains of Southern Virginia where thankfully, there was no cell coverage. Being that I am pretty addicted to the phone like 90% of other Americans, getting to a place where cell phone coverage is not present seems to be the only way to escape the grip. My iPrecious... It is also the same reason I don't keep junk food in the house. If it is around, I will eat it. If I have my phone, I will tweet it. So, getting out away was a hard reset. Frankly, I can take about three days of tent camping. Then, I either go into feral mode and just don't give a rip and embrace the unrefined life of the outdoors, or I have to pack-up and roll out. I prefer the latter. Like Jonah being barfed out of the whale onto the shores of civilization.  With my buddy doing the driving, I had the opportunity to delve into the book above, he had it checked out of the library, and then continued doing so at the campsit