Or “How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?”

A few weeks ago, I went on a trip with my dad, uncle, cousin and a couple of their friends in order to share an off-road trip on ATVs across the jungle. There were about twelve of us enjoying the landscape in Misiones, northern Argentina, with its tea, tobacco and yerba mate plantings. Not that you could expect to see lots of wild animals around those noisy ATVs.

Ready… set… go!

Largely beautiful as this country is, as you get into more rural areas, there’s a high chance you won’t have cell phone coverage there – I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to choose if that’s a feature or a bug.

So there we were, making an asado (think “barbeque”, if you must) in the cabins we’ve rented in the middle of nowhere, when my cousin started to look around for his phone. In the hour after the last time we knew he had the phone, he took a 50km trip to the c