Sunday, April 24, 2011

Traveling with Tech- how I roll

Travel is the thing. I don't know if it is why I do what I do, but if I wasn't doing that, I would travel anyway. In fact, I can't separate travel from any part of my life. Of course metaphysically, we travel through life as we live it. But in the mundane bit of life between trips, every day I look around and see my world through the eyes of a traveler on a journey, small or Large.

Tech, since the wheel, has been part of the trip. A tool to make the work go more efficiently and effectively. In our time we have more technology than we can possibly apply, and most of it is, if not portable, ubiquitous. Go to a hotel in any country, and expect electricity and running water. Go to a mountaintop and hook up the solar panels to power the sat station so you can communicate with others.

In my world, tech makes travel better, makes what I am there to do more well done, and helps me, and i hope, you, glean a better experience from the journey.

My quest is to find better ways of doing the travel. Better ways to plan, execute and enjoy the trip. Better ways to do the "work" that is the objective of the trip.




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2 comments:

  1. The very first trouble with solar panels is the quantity of power they are able to acquire is proportional towards the volume of sunlight they acquire. Sun light isn’t displayed year ’round.

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  2. Yes, this is so true, if you use them for backpacking it really brings home the inefficiency as you rate the weight of solar vs battery power.

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