Social or Antisocial Networking

During the past little while I have noticed my friends, coworkers, people on the bus and pretty much every kid walking the streets have become more and more addicted to the concept of social networking. Everyone has a Facebook page, msn account, chat account and a smart phone with unlimited data plan to follow all of the above. Every time I turn around one of my friends has his/her phone out, clicking away and chuckling about some dumb comment someone else left on their Facebook wall. I know I am probably the last person in US and Canada not to have a Facebook account, and according to my friends I don’t really exist until I exist on Facebook, but personally I neither enjoy for just about anyone one the WWW to have access to all of my info, nor do I think anything I do is interesting enough for others to follow. And honestly, I am surprised you are even reading this post right now. Read more

Evian commercials: the good and the creepy

A few years ago i saw this ad for Evian water. It was an homage to Queen: We will rock you at same time as it was pretty and well designed. Now that said, today one of my friends showed me their new add; JUST CREEPY. I don’t know what is the thing with babies? Every once in a while some designer or director says “You know what would be really cool? Lets have a bunch of babies in diapers do something adults would look totally stupid doing. Yeah that would be cute.” After seeing this add i don’t think I can even drink Evian water without having a slightly queasy feeling at the bottom of my stomach.  Judge for yourselves:

How does Evian make me feel? A little creeped out and sick to be honest. I don’t think i can listen to Rapper’s Delight, look at roller blades or even a child for a long time now.

ONP: Cape Alava

ONP: camping at Cape Alava

We just got back from a nice long weekend spent in the Olympic National Park. We arrived at Lake Ozette camp ground Friday afternoon in 2 cars completely stuffed with our packs. After filling up water, redistributing some weight from some packs to others (mostly to mine and Vinay’s) we set on a 4 mile hike down the Cape Alava trail down to the beach. The trail was one of the nicer ones I have seen in a while. The whole path was a very nice and sometimes bouncy boardwalk that led us through the woods all the way to the pacific beach. Once at the beach, we set up our tents and after having our food went immediately to bed.

The next day when we all woke up (some later than others, yeah OK fine, i was the last to wake up. Don’t tell me you thought otherwise) we realized that the fog had been so strong the night before that none of us realized there were a few other islands in front of us. On Saturday we went for a very nice hike along the the beach, sometimes sandy, sometimes rocky and watched the fog go inland and back to see.

One of the most amazing things that i think caught us all by surprise was how high and low the tide can get. On the first night the water was a few meters from our tents, but by the next morning the water had receded so much that you could pretty much walk to the nearby islands.

Bridal Veil Falls

Last week a large group of us went camping at Money Creek Campgrounds. During the day everybody except me, Orsolya and Tahir went white water rafting. The three of us decided to go for a hike on one of the trails nearby. On the way there we passed by a few interesting places. On the road we could pull over and go down by the river and climb on the rocks overlooking the river. Also when passing near Index, there was a section of the road closed due to a river deciding that the road was a much nicer way to go as opposed to the usual rocky river bed. Here are the snaps from that trip. Enjoy!