Unplugged Travel, Trekking Nepal, and Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone with Tony Fletcher
About this episode
Tony Fletcher discusses his month-long solo trip to Nepal focused on a digital detox and the personal insights gained from disconnecting.
What happens when you plan a trip with one goal: to disappear from your phone, your inbox, and the news for as long as you can stand it? Tony Fletcher is a British music journalist and the author of seven books, including the bestselling Keith Moon biography Moon and the definitive R.E.M. biography Remarks Remade. He started the fanzine Jamming! as a teenager in London and has spent decades interviewing artists across the music world. He now lives in New York's Catskill Mountains, where he writes about music, travel, and running. Tony just got back from a solo month in Nepal, where a big part of the trip was a deliberate digital detox: two weeks completely offline, no email, no social media, no news. He joins me to talk through how he planned it, what it actually felt like to disconnect, and the unconventional route he took into the mountains. This is a conversation about what happens when you actually let go, not just of your phone, but of the need to always know what's going on. Tony went in with real doubts about whether he could pull it off, and those doubts followed him further into the trip than he…
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