Everyone knows that, when you get a motel or hotel room, you get free TV. I have never seen a motel so cheap that it had no TV. I don't think it's possible to get a discount for a room with no TV. I usually watch it.
When Mary Ann and I go camping, we do not bring a TV. Some campers do. Or should I say "campers", because I'm not sure the word camping is being used properly for 80% of campers in north America.
Because this trip was going to be six weeks, and Mary Ann dislikes TV, and with many nights in motels, we worked out a solution. I brought along the internet in the form of an Android phone. This arrangement is working out quite well. I have watched almost no TV for 6 weeks.
Recently, I have watched a little TV. One night I checked out all 45 channels, including HBO. There was nothing worth watching, so I turned off instead of my usual behaviour, which is to flip through the channels in an endless loop. I may be getting off TV for good.
Picture: our balcony at the water park hotel in Duluth, watching traffic on I-35 instead of watching TV. Mary Ann had binoculars, so she could watch stuff further away, like the other shore of Lake Superior.
You write, 'One night I checked out all 45 channels ... nothing worth watching'
ReplyDeleteSome would agree with you ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5scpDev1qps
Hey, Bruce Springsteen agrees with me. He's a good guy, and I forgive him for his bad luck about where he was born.
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