National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence

Fisherman wrote:
Can you imagine the mayhem if the internet/cell service broke down for a month.

Yep ... and yep several more times!

That's the reason we base only part of our lives on the Internet and cell towers:

1. We have both cable and satellite based home entertainment.

2. We have both cell phone and satellite based navigation in our RV.

3. We have both cell phone and satellite medical rescue request capability in our RV.

4. We have mulitple citizen band radios in our RV.

5. All our financial affairs have paper copy backups that come in the mail, as well as Internet access to the financial records.

6. We have radio based weather information in the RV.

7. We have an all-band portable radio in the home.