We kind-of fell out of the tradition during and after COVID, but for almost 20 years now my friends and I would always do a spring and autumn camping trip out in the absolute middle of nowhere where there's no cell service at all. Best weekends of my life and from 2015 on, were largely for the reasons mentioned in the article.
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You need to get back into that tradition!