Before the trip, I’d spent several weeks in a coffee shop with a laptop, hyperconnected all the time, and the silence of Mexico and my useless phone felt cavernous. I felt a little jumpy, like something really major might be happening and I might miss it. But as time went on, I realized that the really major things were happening all around me, and that more often than not, I had been missing them because my phone had become an extension of my hand, and what it said to people, essentially, is that just being with them isn’t enough. This view of the ocean? Not enough. Your story? Not enough.
