Touring - Reports during or after the tour?

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swekarl
12-19-01, 04:38 PM
For my upcoming biketrip Sweden—Hungary, I was planning to update my homepage daily. I had just found the perfect hitech yet lowbudget equipment (mobile, palm pilot, modem basically). But this weekend my mobile got stolen (or I ”drank it away”, as the saying goes in Sweden). It was cheap and I could buy another one. But I also thought, not for the first time, that touring without these gadgets might be a nicer experience, especially since it’s my first tour. So are there any geeks out there who have some experience in the matter?
And for once, I can use this smiley! :crash:

Info on my upcoming tour... (http://www.karlsplanet.com/articles/005.html)


Chris L
12-19-01, 05:31 PM
Personally I'd rather go without any of those gadgets. In many places there are public libraries/Internet cafes where you can log on and post updates, however, for me it would just be yet another obligation, the type of thing that I see touring as a way of escaping.

Joe Gardner
12-19-01, 07:25 PM
If your interested, i can run a sub forum for your tour here on the forums, as i did for catfish on his tour this summer. That way, if you update from public places, you wont need to worry about FTP / layout on your webpage... let me know if your interested.

Personaly, i would take a notepad, its easyer to write down thoughs on paper then on a palm or computer :)

Have fun with the tour!


swekarl
12-20-01, 02:27 AM
Wow, what an offer, Joe! But the point with updating thru my Palm was that I could do it every night without the need of real computers and Internet cafés. I even had a guestbook-style layout solution. Although a portable keyboard would ease the frustration of writing ”graffiti” :cry: (the Palm Pilot system of tapping letters on the screen, duh).

Of course I will write every night anyway (after all, journalism is my part time occupation!), but publish it all later on my site. Well well, I haven’t decided yet...

And here is what my technomadic solution looks like! (http://www.karlsplanet.com/palminfo.html) (Or looked like before my mobile was stolen...)