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Why aren’t people more thankful for mobile technology? Oh, riiiight.

Why aren’t people more thankful for mobile technology? Oh, riiiight.

11/01/202104/11/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

I know where all the hatred for mobile phones is coming from.

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Urubamba Valley, Peru: aka “Yucay Valley,” aka “Sacred Valley,” aka “Holy Crap! Valley.”
06/07/2012
Morocco’s Atlas Mountains aren’t the world’s tallest, but at least they’re not more @#$%ing desert.
03/14/2020
Costa Rica: Two weeks in rustic Nirvana.
10/12/2000
Kyoto Japan is so well-preserved, it doesn’t look a day over a thousand.
10/23/2018

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