Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can you go without the internet for a day? You might have to bust out an old-fashioned paper map. I stood on a ridge in the Sandia ...

I stood on a ridge in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by pinyon trees and red-barked pines, listening to the trill of dark-eyed juncos jostling through the underbrush.

No text messages. No Google Maps. No security cam alerts. Here's what happened when I tried completely unplugging from the internet. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...