Day without Technology

I was not sure which day would be best or to put it bluntly easiest for me to go a day without technology I had no clue what day to pick. It wasn’t until we headed up on the train ride for Santa Barbra that Brynn suggested we should do a day on the bike trip. I thought that this idea was brilliant for a number of reasons. So for my day without technology I actually did not notice that much of a change. This was probably due to which day I chose to complete this assignment. The day I chose was the third day of my bike trip. The best part about this was, even though automobiles were around before 1984, I didn’t even use one all day. I was for the most part on a bicycle, or walking on my legs.

Communication led, for the most part ok for the whole day. This was the one day although, that I was not able to contact my parents which was slightly frustrating. Other than contacting my parents communication was not a problem. This had to be the most frustrating part of the day. Not having my phone, which for the most part is my lifeline to the world, was difficult. This little gadget has my link to friends, news, family, entertainment, everything that I could think of is held in my phone. Not being able to use it as a flash light to read my book before bed was the most troubling because I had to then borrow a flashlight.

I was with all of my friends on the trip to begin with and any that were home were either in another country (Thailand) or in school still. Another great thing was that we didn’t have any gaming systems with us, no Play stations, Wii’s, or GameCube’s. In fact, the only ‘gaming’ system, if you would like to call it that, was a deck of cards. So that night we played a couple of different games, BS a classic, psidos which was new to me, and of course go fish! We kept each other entertained with stories about the day and things that have happened before we had all met. This was neat because I learned more about the people I had been biking with for the past three days.

Most of the day was spent biking, and considering that I do not listen to music when I bike, technology free. Once we are at camp, we have to lock the bikes, set up tents, and get bags out of the van, again no real technology. We eat dinner late at a restaurant that we biked to, and then biked back to camp. And sadly to say I ended up turning in early almost every night from the amount of biking we had done. So my technology free day was not that difficult to complete and really fun.