Maciej is staying on a tiny island called Spildra just north of the 70th parallel - "a little rectangular block of land about four miles long in the Kvænangen fjord". It has a population of 43.
The cabin he's staying in has a website.
Please note that on the website it says
"[a] cellular phone can be used all over the island"
Yes. That's right. A tiny fucking island on top of the world "north of all of mainland Canada, north of Alaska (except for a tiny sliver of the North Slope)" has better fucking reception than San Francisco, arguably the most technology forward city on earth.
Or, as I put it elsewhere
"it's easier to get a good cup of tea and decent mobile phone reception up the side of Ben Nevis than it is to get either of those anywhere in the whole of the US"
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