The hardest part of a digitox is the week before it. You will think of a hundred reasons to stay reachable. Most of them are not real.
Download, then delete
Save offline maps for the whole region, not just the route. Print the address, the host's landline, and the directions from the last town. Then take the apps you reach for most off your home screen.
You are not going somewhere without signal. You are going somewhere with something else.
Pack for slowness
Bring one book more than you think you will read. A notebook. A deck of cards. Warm socks. A watch, so the phone can stay in the lockbox.
Expect the first day to be strange
Your hand will reach for your pocket. You will feel briefly anxious, then bored, then something else. That something else is why you came.
