Camping

First thing's first: sorry for the lack of pictures.

This is my friend Tanner:

 This is Tanner with a(nother) mustache:

I would love to continue by saying something about in a box or with a fox... But unfortunately I do not have the matching pictures.

Why have I shown you Tanner?  Because Tanner is likely the one to blame for why I am currently obsessed with the idea of camping, and as a result, am internet shopping for such gear. This is because Tanner is the other outdoorsy backpacking person in my abroad program, and we have talked about being able to go camping in Spain, and where each of us plans to camp afterwards. We have talked about this so much that I think now it is more me talking about it at him and him just sort of nodding.

Sorry Tanner.

But I am very excited to go hiking. My goal (while not as cool as Tanner's goal to go to Iceland) is to go backpacking in Sweden while visiting Eric Collins (Fig. 1). I am particularly excited because Sweden has the "wandering law" which stipulates you may camp on any private property for up to 24 hours as long as you respect privacy of residences and follow Leave No Trace principles.

Figure 1: An Eric Collins in its natural state.

I have to appologize again. The lack of pictures until now, and the very few pictures I have now included are due to the fact that I have yet to take pictures off my camera. These are just ones lying around on my ipod. To make it up to you, here is the aqueduct in Segovia. Click on it to see it bigger.