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Vinalhaven, Maine - Leave Your Cell Phone on the Mainland

I have often wished for a place where I could just drop off the grid for a moment in time. Often times, I feel as if I was born in the wrong century. Case in point, I am a person who still has a rotary dial phone in my house. By choice. I do not fight the invasion of modern technology but I do not exactly embrace it with open arms either. More often than not, I feel people and their seemingly unnatural relationships with their iPads, laptops and cellular telephones takes away from the opportunities to interact in the present moment with a fellow human being. How am I ever going to meet Prince Charming if he is too busy interacting with his iPad to even see that I walked into the room? :) I miss the days when one could stop for a coffee at a cafe and actually have the chance to strike up a spontaneous conversation with the person seated at the next table. Now more often than not, that very same person is already engaged in a conversation with someone on their cell phone.