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Also, you'll never really know what information is being being exposed or gathered no matter how much research you do or assurances you get. Plus, if you're on the internet at all, at least true for me, is that you'll eventually get sucked into something, maybe just out of boredom, an get into some old habits of wasting time.

The stand alone gps and flip phone are great ideas for your purposes. One final suggestion, this is something I would definitely do, is load up on audiobooks and get a stand alone little mp3 player. I think you could get lots of free audiobooks from the library on whatever subjects you're interested in and listen while you drive, hike around, whatever.

I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to take a year away from TV and internet and listen to a few hundred audiobooks filled with knowledge instead of meaningless cultural junk.