I spent a week traveling without my phone. I ran into surprising challenges, but it was the digital detox I needed

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I spent a week traveling without my phone. I ran into surprising challenges, but it was the digital detox I needed

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tried to travel without my phone and learned a few lessons along the way.
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I spent a week without my phone in the Tangkhul Naga villages of Manipur.
Trusting strangers' handwritten maps over Google taught me to embrace uncertainty.
I learned to…

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