Do you ever turn off your cell phone?

This is the question of the day at Gizmodo.

There are very few times that I power down and usually is it out of sheer frustration. But I did spend one week in Mexico this summer where, GASP, I had my cell phone off, and in the hotel safe for 8 days.

Due completely to the fact that I refused to pay the exorbitant roaming charges I sent one text to my family letting them know we arrived safely and locked my phone away.

And to be honest I didn't miss it at all, OK that's not entirely true. There was one time when I was wandering the hotel and couldn't find my companion that I wish I had my phone to place that "Where are you?" call. But what good would it have done if I had my phone, when his was still in the safe.

And its funny because coming home I thought that my cellular vacation would have made me less dependent on my mobile phone but it didn't it might have made it worse because now I know I can be without a mobile but I just choose not to be.