Yes, that's about it. Forget satnav and smartphone GPS, I have an in-hand navigation device. One that never crashes, though I have had to chase it down across a parking lot before. When we go on family vacations (there are 7 of us mind you in one car), we don't even make reservations. If a campground is full, has too many bugs, the ranger looks at you wrongs, whatever, we just go somewhere else. It's freeing to know that you have 8 days until you have to be home, and no planned stops.

The BWCAW is one of those wonderful places to unwind. Heck forget cell overage or tablets, we are talking no CARS! Canoe only. The last cell tower is in Ely anyway. In three weeks I go ice fishing on Mille Lacs and there is no way any internet connected device is coming along. (Ok, the GPS with the lake chip doesn't count, or else I won't find 2 1/2 mile reef. Mmmm, walleye.)

I don't get hung up in the browser wars, What ever is handy I use. I mostly use Firefox or Aurora on my home machines (though I am using Lynx at the moment), while at work I am restricted to using Internet Exploder 9.

I work for a large municipal utility in the U.S. This last March I had the opportunity to see the Trimble X100 Gatewing mapping drone. Because the current law only limits the sale of drones to private companies, I could have walked out of the meeting with a Drone for my department if I had wanted one. We at the utility discussed putting a radio read receiver on the X100 and using it to read the radio transmitter meters that we use. Currently the technology is still too expensive to be practical, but if us at an relatively insignificant organization is seriously contemplating the usage, it is only a matter of time.