Travel dilemmas: On vacation, give those digital devices a rest, too
by Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times
Oct 29, 2018
4 minutes
Some drowned. Some fell. Others were killed in car accidents.
The culprit: usually a smartphone in pursuit of a selfie.
Drownings and falls are among the leading causes of selfie-related deaths; many car accidents can be traced to distracted driving, thanks to the need to respond to texts and email.
The smartphone has become a fatal attraction.
It also may be guilty of lesser crimes that affect even more travelers: the ability to subvert or even destroy your time away.
It's bad enough that we don't take all the vacation time we're allotted. More than half of all Americans leave
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