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   - [[trip to x]].
 
 As I write this, I'm roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don't have an internet connection so I'm jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later.
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+I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of connectivity, and I still love how far we've gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the 'forced' focus that being fully offline for a bit can bring, if nothing else because that same mode is always available -- behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia -- which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words was I not truly offline.