What I learned from Costa Rica, part 5

I woke up this morning and thought, wow, I'm up early! It was barely 6am. My phone wakes me up at 6:30am everyday with its quirky, annoying melody. You have to wake up or plug your ears for a few minutes until the phone alarm dies.

I get too accustomed to the réveil-matin. In fact I start to take it for granted as with many other modern amenities. I expect it to wake me up at 6:30am every weekday.

Going to Costa Rica, I was relying on my phone to wake me up before the sunrise so we could take full advantage of the early days and perhaps get some shooting done before it gets too hot and too bright. As it turned out though, my phone needs to see the network for it to display the time! My CDMA phone works only in North America so it was in fact useless in Costa Rica. I could not make calls with it or even use its clock! My body clock had to be it. It had to be re-adjusted for Costa Rica, which oddly enough, worked.

Anyways, remember to take with you a working alarm clock when traveling. Just remember also that the alarm clock will not wake you up if you had too much fun the night before.