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Yo, so this is where I'd rather be right now (music cue: Main Theme for Seven Years in Tibet). And I'm thrilled to pieces that I can share this image with you thanks to Flickr! I uploaded the image as part of a set last year in order to share it with friends and family all over the country. I wanted them to know that I don't spend all of my time sitting crumpled up, transfixed in front of a computer display with cocked head, tired watering eyes, and a line of drool dangling from the lower corner of my bottom lip. There is something to be said about venturing away, if even with great trepidation, from our man-made, live-wired, technology-laden, methane-enshrouded, concrete-plastic-and-steel-encrusted environment to the almost alien natural world of plants, dirt, rocks, bugs, wind, protazoa-infested water, mud, snow, and the relentless radiation of the hot sun. Somehow, the second environment makes me feel more alive. But, alas, I couldn't survive out there forever on my own. Gotta make a living. So, here I am sitting crumpled up, transfixed...