Folks here know I am bullish on traveling with your ipod. Yes, you can get obsessive about it and tune out the rest of the world, but I am a big fan of having along a musical and/or learning accompaniment to a trip. That said, the ipod can bring other benefits….in fact, it can save your life.
Just ask Pini Nou, a 25 hiker who was out, well, looking for mushrooms last week when he got lost. Wandering aimlessly around the forest…perhaps having eaten to many fabulous fungus…he had no idea where he was. Then night came and dangers lurked everywhere. Of course, it helped he had his cell phone, which he used to tell rescuers where…about, sort of…he thought he was. And, at about 1 am, when the rescuers got close they saw the light from his ipod, which he’d been using to help himself navigate through some particularly dense underbrush. It then took them less than 20 minutes to rescue him. Everyone then celebrated by eating mushrooms and listening to Pink Floyd on the handy little white device.