01/08/2019
Go to a place so far off the grid the only way to get there is to hike
Strap on your hiking boots and bring your thirst for adventure to these tech-free, deep-in-nature lodges, guaranteed to get you away from it all.
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The Luxury Of Being Offline
I have been raised offline in the Tuscan countryside back in the 1980’s. When I was 6 my parents decided to move from the congested city of Naples, where we had every comfort, to a beautiful but severe rural house in one of the most secluded areas of Italy, where the expression in the middle of nowhere wasn’t an euphemism. The word offline at the time was mostly unknown, but today describes perfectly my first years in that new place. We were literally disconnected from the World: no electric power, no land line phone, no tv, no nothing. Candles at bedtime and fireplaces to warm up the house. Internet, cellphones and solar panels were 20 years in the future, the first village 10 miles away and the first real city was 150 miles away.
I found myself deepened into an intensive digital detox lifestyle ahead of time, driven by my parent’s research of higher standards of life quality from an alternative standpoint. A lucky lifestyle that would have been dissolving in the years to come. Slowly but irreparably. At the time I was too young to understand the humongous luxury I was experiencing. It was a time of outdoor playing from dawn to dusk, a time for getting the total attention from your parents, a time of long chatting, a time of shaping out a chunk of clay, drawing for hours with water colors, reading thousand of pages of the most beautiful adventure’s books, a time to learn poems with my Nonna, a time to go in the woods and picking mushrooms, berries, asparagus, a time of horse-back ridings and downhill runs the stream with other lucky kids like me, and so on.
It was an amazing unplugged childhood which gradually evolved into a slightly more connected teens age. By the time I was 10, we had got power in this big rural house, we got a black boxed tv and a phone number - the day they installed our land line I was so thrilled, I still remember the smell of that amazing gray plastic machine - but I was still pretty much a tech-free kid. Then, when I turned 12 I wished a Commodore 64. I went to the computer store 40 miles away with my dad and I will never forget his sceptic approach to the nerdy guy running the store, but things were changing everywhere, even in that remote corner of Tuscany.
In the 80’s we were watching movies such as War Games or Back to the Future, we started writing our own lines of code in Basic and traveling the world feeling something big happening: the digital revolution. I was in college, at some point in the 90’s, when I saw for the first time a computer connected to an extremely slow internet connection in a cafe’. It was love at first sight! Then in 1998 I had a GSM in my pocket and a 56k modem connection at home: I was now able to send text messages, emails, build websites and make new friends on ICQ , since then I have been rarely offline in my daily life routine. I never complained about it, actually I always loved the power of the communication, I developed a career based on it, which eventually brought me to New York City, undoubtedly one of the most connected place on Earth.
