Over the past couple of days I've put more thought into the last post I made. A new thought I have had is that we never truly get the chance to be detached from anything. What I mean by this is that we are practically always connected to somewhere/someone else through our use of the internet and cell phones. Cell phone coverage exists almost everywhere these days, and losing reception is something that people need to worry about less and less. I could be deep in the woods and still have great reception. In a sense, fewer and fewer areas are free from not only humanity's physical presence (roads, houses, other projects), but humanity's unseen technology is practically always present.
Nevertheless, I went for a run in a more isolated park the other day, and in spite of what I said in my last post about even the park being unisolated and tamed, I did feel separated from the outside. As I ran along a trail that usually takes about an hour to complete, I only saw four people, all of whom were on the main part of the trail. I was in fact able to get a feeling of escaping the developed outside world, if only for a brief moment.
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