Let us look at some numbers:

• # of mobile devices on the world: 7 billion
• # of Twitter users: 555 million
• total # of iPhones sold: 193 million
• Total average of daily UPS shipments: 16 million

These numbers are only an example how we are equiped by electronic devices which connect people all around the world.

It is hard to imagine to live in today’s developed world without computer or mobile devices. I put the word “developed” in previous sentence on purpose. There are still places on the Earth where it is on the other hand impossible to use mobile devices, because of lack of any signal or electricity. And let us be honest, we all sometimes gate away to such places (mountain peaks, abandoned islands, deep forests,…) just because we are too tired of being connected all the time. We want to untie and disconnect ourselves at least for a while.

This is exactly what I did last weekend. Two days ago, I came back to Vancouver from my four-days Rockies trip and I am going to introduce you another numbers. I spent 4 amazing days in real physical connection with nature instead of the online connection with my study groups and other people. I had a chance to experience -18°C freeze in Lake Luise, +40°C hot water in hot springs, elevation of 2 451 m on Sulphur Mountains and also, unfortunately, many many hours in our bus (do not wanna know exact number here!) 🙂   Are not these numbers nicer than the top ones?