Having a day where I was restricted from using any electronics wasn't really that difficult for me. I've been camping before where I'll be gone for 7-12 days or so and there's really no electricity where we're camping, so I can't use a cell phone, or iPod, or what not. The day I did choose to go without electronics was the second day into our One World Week, which was the Saturday the 19th.
We woke up early in the morning, ate breakfast, and set out biking, so there wasn't much to do in the way of electronics anyway. We would take little breaks throughout the day and so on, but it was easy not to take my phone out. That was also the day it was raining really badly I think, so we were pretty much all drenched and just wanting to get to our destination. None of us really fancied sleeping in our wet tents again, but it was better than catching hypothermia in the rain. We slept in our tents again that night, so we all just went to bed early. There was no real time to call anyone on my phone, so I had a relatively easy day in terms of going without electronics.
Of course, on top of all that, when I went to pull out my phone the next day and call my friend to wish her a happy birthday, my phone, I found out, had been waterlogged. Which made it completely useless for the rest of the trip. I couldn't even get the numbers I needed out of the phone, so I had to dance around from number to number until I could find the right one.
So overall it wasn't very hard to go without, just like any other day camping.
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