Originally Posted by
pdlamb
Honestly, few of us need anything electrical when we're touring. Postcards, pencil and paper, fuel, and you can survive a long time.
What do you want with a smartphone? laptop? camera? Is it worth it to pfutz around with batteries?
If it is, how much pfutzing do you want to do? You can turn off a smartphone when you're riding, and make it last quite a few days between evening calls home. Of course, then you need to find a way to recharge -- library, motel, diner, etc. all make recharging possible.
If you stop watching lamestream media and start reading the real news you will see the entire globe is on the threshold right now of WWIII. With all the nuclear weapons floating around just fire a few of those puppies off and all your electronics will be worthless anyways. Get use to the pencil, paper and paper maps. Get use to not always being in contact with your loved ones, heck they may be dead anyways from the nuclear radiation.