Dialed at Hoh Rainforest

On a Hoh Rainforest campsite, our camper neighbor across the road was a Majestic Mountain Man, who had brought his whole family out camping together, in his big house tent. He was washing his breakfast dishes in a big soapy plastic tub, and I told him how I noticed he had his whole family in the tent there, his dog, wife, and little baby son and daughter. I thought that was fun and wonderful. He told me it was his little kids’ First Camping.

“I’m getting them dialed,” he said with big teeth.

What a blessing to be Dialed! I’d like to be dialed. Maybe that’s what Thoreau was trying to do at Walden. Get dialed on not living “what was not life.” The opposite of getting dialed is probably social media.