My name's Steve Kersey. I'm a journalist, and it's been more than a decade that I've been living without a cell phone.

You heard that right. Stephen Kersey has been living without a cell phone for about 12 years.

This choice led Stephen to discover a surprising place where he was not alone.

And we will take you there, but first we have to go back to 2009 when Stephen was living in Cambodia.

I was working for a newspaper there called Cambodia Daily. I can remember going to sleep with this old flip phone, checking it through the night,

dreading that call or text from my editor saying, you know, Steven, what the hell does this mean in your article?

So when I left Cambodia, I just threw the device away.

When I got back to the United States, like I found myself all of a sudden surrounded by people with smartphones.

And I was just a struggling journalist.

I didn't want to pay for all that.

So I was like, I'll just put it off.

What has it been like over the last decade in a world where everything has become increasingly

dominated by smartphones?

You know, people are often, they tease me about it and they're annoyed about it.

It's like, well, you know, text me when you arrive at whatever we're going for a hike

or rock climbing and I'll let you know where I am.

I have to say, well, I don't have a cell phone, so can we just say a time and a place we're

going to meet, just like we used to the old-fashioned way. But people don't want to do that anymore.

I've had numerous bosses say to me, just get a cell phone, Steve. Why are you being such a pain in the ass for us?

I say, no, that's not the way I want to live my life.

It was around 2016, 2017, that I just did an internet search, perhaps ironically, for places without cell service, thinking, maybe this is the place where I will find my people.

And the first thing that pops up was Green Bank, West Virginia, the quietest town in America,

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