[Flycatcher]

Last year, I spent 180 nights in the wilderness. This year, so far, 160.

Living this way, you discover one thing real fast: Humans are a diurnal species. We are not meant to be night owls.

In very short order in the wilderness, you go to bed the moment the sun sets. And you get up even before dawn, at the first hint of light.

This soon becomes "natural."

[super7man]

diurnal

I bet the "Word for the Day" team could have fun with this word.

[MaskedMan]

If you don’t mind my asking, how do you get to log so much time in the wild?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***In very short order in the wilderness, you go to bed the moment the sun sets.***

I also have found this to be true. In bed when the sun goes down, up just before dawn. Often the first one to the National Park rest rooms.

Then back in the world, you stay up late to see a show on TV, and begin to sleep late in the mornings, unless you have to get up and go to work.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In reading the works of HOMER, I noticed quite a few mentions of “Light, rosy fingered dawn”. Didn’t those people have TV to keep them up till midnight? ;-)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

In very short order in the wilderness, you go to bed the moment the sun sets.

Sun goes down, pants go down. Sun goes up, pants go up.