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[*] posted on 5-25-2020 at 02:24 PM


Quote: Originally posted by thebajarunner  
I tend to agree with "if you need a cell phone then stay home where your reception is great"


My last truly "off-the-grid" vacation was to London and North Yorkshire in 2000. I had a pager at the time, but left it home, as I did my cell phone. At that point there was no expectation that a person should be capable of being reached when out of town. That seemed to change within a year or two, when I was promoted to manager at my workplace and WiFi became ubiquitous. I remember being in Placencia, Belize in 2002 and checking my email every day on a shared PC at the Beach Breeze Inn. By the time we started visiting Baja 10 or so years ago, both my wife and I brought our laptops with us, and my wife, who owns her own business, would work several hours a day, while I would post photos and write. I can't say I feel a sense of loss as much as I have to acknowledge that the times have changed.




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[*] posted on 5-25-2020 at 02:56 PM


We visited Kenya and Tanzania in 2007. In Kenya the game hotels had point to point microwave data links. You had to go to the hotel business office to check your email if the link was up. In Tanzania they had good Cell service and data out in the middle of the Serengeti! All the Masai who could afford it had cell phones. The service at the time was better than in Los Angeles! They charged the phones off of generators or car batteries. Very neat to see a 6 foot plus Masai with an 8 foot spear walking barefoot across the Serengeti talking on a cellphone!
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