As someone who traveled extensively before and after, it’s a huge difference. I traveled Europe for 6 months with no mobile phone whatsoever. Only paper maps and pay phones and no hotel reservations. All my money was in travelers cheques. That was a proper adventure. Now there’s essentially nothing that can go wrong.
Yeah, I miss the adventure part of learning a new city with just a handful of polite words to get you by. I’ve also noticed that pretty much everywhere I go there are plenty of people who speak English so less of a reason to learn another language. I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though, and that is easy to keep doing, you just don’t pull out your phone to look at the map.
I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though
Heck this is a blast even at home. If I’m given an address in a small town it’s pretty fun to just drive around and try to find the address without looking it up
As someone who traveled extensively before and after, it’s a huge difference. I traveled Europe for 6 months with no mobile phone whatsoever. Only paper maps and pay phones and no hotel reservations. All my money was in travelers cheques. That was a proper adventure. Now there’s essentially nothing that can go wrong.
Yeah, I miss the adventure part of learning a new city with just a handful of polite words to get you by. I’ve also noticed that pretty much everywhere I go there are plenty of people who speak English so less of a reason to learn another language. I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though, and that is easy to keep doing, you just don’t pull out your phone to look at the map.
Heck this is a blast even at home. If I’m given an address in a small town it’s pretty fun to just drive around and try to find the address without looking it up