My girlfriend lives in Sterling, Connecticut. For those of you who don't know where that is (which, I'm going to assume is EVERYONE), it is in the middle of nowhere . . . I've often joked with her about this and have even called her town "Podunkville". There is no cell service in the entire town; however, they least have Internet access!
Really good friends of our family have lived in Kingston, New York for the past 30 odd years . . . I've never got "good" service in their house, but I could always go outside to make a call . . . where I've been for the past 48 hours has given a new meaning to the term "Podunkville". If you ever want to experience a complete umbilical-cord-like severing from technology go up to Woodstock, New York . . . I've had no cell service and no Internet access! Plus to top it all off, Megan just moved into that apartment (from her parent's home in Kingston), so she hasn't had her land-line phone hooked up yet!
Being that cut off from the world for approximately 48 hours was really strange! Being a child of this era, it's sometimes difficult to see just how much we rely on technology. I remember being asked when I was a freshman in college, what "modern invention" could I not live without . . . I said my glasses, because without them, I'm virtually blind. I guess a lot has changed in the past seven years, I still can't really live without my glasses (or at least my contacts) but there are a few other "inventions" that I'm pretty dependent on, like the cell phone that is attached to my hip 24/7 . . . maybe I should spend more time in "Podunkville" . . . maybe we should all spend a little more time there!
