Do you prefer/enjoy having little or no internet access when you travel? (Personally, I love it!)
The vacation from which my wife and I just returned today was preplanned for more than eight months, yet I did not announce here beforehand that I would be out of contact.
When I travel I take a laptop along. In the evenings I like to get online, like I'm doing now. The days would mostly be pretty busy between doing and driving. We did stop during a long cross country drive a few years ago at a motel which had no internet and we drove until we found another place. So, sometimes it's important more than others. I don't use a smartphone so the laptop is my away from home source. At home I usually use my desktop. I like it better than any other way to access the web.
I have departed the USA many times and have never taken a computer with me. The people I visit have computers as long as I've had a desire to get online while traveling. Most of my travel other than Islands and Europe was done when I was younger and no need to have a computer. I prefer road trips in the lower 48 and always take a computer. When I fly domestically I take a computer.
I don't mind at all. I am a bit nervous about an upcoming trip to the mountains where the cell service is limited or non-existent because how am I supposed to know where I'm going without Google Maps??
I prefer to have internet access while I am away. I have gone without a couple of times when the internet was so bad, it may as well not have been there.. But I prefer to have it. However, when I am away I DO take a complete break from social sites like this. That to me is a real break
I've enjoyed many holidays with no Internet, radio, music device or newspapers (I have no TV anyway) for up to three weeks. And my telephone, which is not an Internet device as far as I know, was switched off almost all of the time.
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