Leaving technology at home.. Give your brain a holiday and go 'unplugged'. (1 Viewer)

GJH

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Great device is sat nav, has saved many a marriage.. wouldn't leave home without, and it doesn't need the web, but don't recall mentioning it though..

nope, defo didn't
Still technology though Jim - and you need the Internet to update the maps & software.

Caught you, welcome to the club :LOL:
 
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Great device is sat nav, has saved many a marriage.. wouldn't leave home without, and it doesn't need the web, but don't recall mentioning it though..

nope, defo didn't
well my GPS Is Android Navigator on my phone and microsoft Autoroute on the lappy with a GPS module Plugged In the USB port. So no discreet GPS needed.
 

Puddleduck

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for years I was a slave to a company mobile.. the day I left it was like lifting a huge load off my back..

I still get a mini-panic attack when I hear the ring tone that was on my works phone.

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JJ

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How do you guarantee you are not visited by that freeloading, lazy, verbose, grumpy old git JJ?

Easy Peasy.

Make sure you are somewhere where there is no possibility of an internet connection.

No internet... no me.

JJ :cool:
 

JockandRita

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Since May 05 (Ex Tuggers).
Having been a pad & pen man for years, I succumbed to IT.

In the MH, we've got the laptop, Android tablet, MiFi, 2 x WiFi boosters, Free view TV, Satellite TV, (both with PVR facility) Pocket HD full of films, etc, Digital camera, HD Dash Cam, Mp3 music, Bluetooth speaker, Sat Nav, mobile phone (which is only turned on when we leave the house).

Me, a lost cause? Aye, go on then Jim. ;)

Cheers,

Jock.
 

magicsurfbus

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I've got a Mac laptop which I take in the MH and run off the 12v. This is ideal for relaxing because I don't like Macs. I use it as a photo backup so my pics aren't just kept on my camera. If there's free wi-fi I may use it to check the news/weather forecast or some aire info but I don't dwell. I certainly don't do e-mail. If there's no free wi-fi I don't bother and I don't care.

I close my eBay shop down when away, and I don't sell anything within 14 days of departing just in case something's returned by a buyer and it needs dealing with. I don't do Faecebook or Twitter at all, anywhere.

My mobile phone is for keeping in touch with the missus when on holiday, and for the occasional text, maybe to the offspring back home. I refuse to put an e-mail app on it.

We have the FreeSat satellite TV/DVD which we use sometimes for selected programmes in the evening.

The only indispensable MH hi-tech for us is the SatNav, which offers live traffic updates and helps navigate us from one aire to the next.

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I am fortunate to do a job that I enjoy, so don't have the same need to escape that some do. I have the van equipped so that I can work from it - in the middle of a rally field if necessary. Without that, we wouldn't be able to go away half as much as we do.

Even so, I don't think I take as much as some. The sat nav doubles up as TV & DAB radio. The laptop will also act as a TV, but apart from F1, I hardly ever watch it. I do have good quality wifi & 3G routers though. I take a mobile, but hardly ever use it for calls - work stuff all comes via the internet.

OH has a kindle & a little radio with headphones. She does use the sat nav TV quite a bit.
 
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Phone & sat nav. have a hudl but only ever used for maps. Wouldn't occur to me to look for internet .No tv.
Wife would have phone, lap top, & would want an internet signal.
 

Bailey58

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Update to an earlier post for @NickNic now we're in the Faroes. Blowing a gale yesterday, bit better today but looking at the forecast on the Beeb this morning it seems much of the UK is getting it too.

And on the OP, couldn't have done that without the technology. :LOL:

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Abacist

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Just been to Toronto and hired a car with a Canadian friend who brought their Garmin Sat Nav with them for us to use. Got out of the airport and it couldn't find the satellites. Pitch black with snow and ice in below zero conditions on their equivalent of spaghetti junction. Turned the iPhone on, chose Maps and used directions. Locked in and gave us fab directions immediately. Have to say that I can't be without technology nowadays!
 
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We take tv blueray playee both phones both tablets kindle hunby has two laptops one is works (just in case)
But i love to sit and do jigsaws puzzle books and read MMM on campouts as never get time to do any them at home.

So we do get unplugged time even though we take stuff with us we have it just in case. The thing is if didnt take them think would be fretting over them but all ok just have them with us and not use them .

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Simon

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First year under our belt!
On our first ever proper outing last year we went to the New Forest and being newbies I had almost every idea for things to do saved as internet links, or little clips from websites in Evernote. Bad idea. This time I've printed out interesting locations, maps etc. on that paper stuff and put them all into a folder.
In addition I got rid of a couple of time-consuming annoyances last year: Facebook being one, and spam emails the second. It took a while to 'unsubscribe' from them all but there are now so few that the feeling of getting away from it all should be greatly enhanced this year!
 

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