Savor The Trip, Dont Tweet It- Response

Christopher Elliott's main point in this article is that taking modern technology on vacations or road trips keeps people from actually experiencing the new place they are at. He is arguing  that "now it is almost impossible to avoid seeing a vacation through the prism of your own portable gadgets". In this society it is hard to find an escape from this world of social networking and just be in the moment and that when your on a trip cell phones, ipads,ipods, etc. take away from the experience of being somewhere new. For me going to Australia means i want a chance to be outside myself and experience new things. technology would disable me to fully experience my surroundings. personally i think the fact that we are going to be in Australia will be distracting enough we probably wont even think about texting or facebook. But even though i don't want to text it would be comforting to know i have a cell phone on me even if it is off the fact that it is there is comforting. I will limit my cell phone use but event though i do it is still true that people allow technology to prevent them from experiencing travel. I agree with Elliott that people can take pictures and say they experienced traveling but most "travelers see the world through the tinny screens of there smart phones before they bother looking  at the real thing". Through out our time in Australia technology should be limited to being used at night before bed, in the morning or in cases of emergency's. Though cameras are considered technology and they tend to get in the way sometimes we should be able to use them when we go out places. They should also be used in moderation because as priest and other experts say when people just take pictures of everything " travel then is compromised into a series of still images or a high definition video for posterity". After the trip to Australia we should be able to look back on a picture and remember a feeling or story, not just look at a picture of us  and some background and not know what we were doing there in the first place. That is not what traveling is about, that is the point of Elliott's article and is what he is trying to say.