I just got this letter today from Rick:
in your last episode of This Week in Travel you spoke about MiFi (verizon) and WiMax (clear.com) and others.
For me, MiFi is too slow, and wimax does not have good coverage in my areas. And specially the data plans are a deal breaker for me.
So, for the above [...]

With a three-month RV trip in the works, it was time to change how I connected to the internet while on the road. In the past, my iPhone filled the gaps between hotel stays and wifi hotspots, but on this trip I’d be staying at campgrounds with unreliable wifi and blacktop boon-docking (overnighting in the [...]

Later this week Apple is doing its big announcement and the expectation is that Apple will announce some sort of tablet computer or eBook reading device. If we assume that Apple is not just announcing the Mighty Mouse ][ then as it enters the eBook reading space (if it does), the device to beat will [...]

Today I was re-watching Seth Godin’s wonderful talk at the Ted conference “Tribes are what mater now“. I would highly recommend Godin’s clarion call for leadership but what caught my eye was at 10 minutes 30 seconds into the presentation he held up my favorite eBook reader the Amazon Kindle. Godin then said that Amazon [...]

One of the many video cameras that caught my eye at the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show was the Kodak PlaySport HD Waterproof Pocket Video Camera. This new camera from Kodak is a sport version of the popular Kodak pocket video cameras. The Playsport is waterproof for depths of up to 10 feet so you don’t [...]

Google is announcing the Nexus One phone today and I was fortunate enough to receive one as a gift from Google a few weeks back. As Google says “It’s svelte (only 130g), fast (a 1 GHz processor), and gorgeous (a 3.7″, high resolution display)”.
Things To Love

The Nexus has a very nice screen and is a [...]

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend and speak at the Travel Blog Exchange Conference in Chicago two weeks ago. Debbie Dubrow of DeliciousBaby.com & Kim Mance of Galavanting.tv did a wonderful job of arranging this event.
While there I spoke on a panel about Podcasting with:

Kim Mance
Chris Elliott of Elliott.org, National Geographic [...]

I stumbled across this video of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. This beautiful building that was built by the Eastern Roman empire had a great influence later on the style of the Imperial Ottoman mosques. If you have listened to the Amateur Traveler then you have already heard how much I loved my trip to Istanbul [...]

The Geekly Traveler spotted shower curtains for people with travel lust. They cost $35 from a company called Loft Party. So if you want a view of Venice, Rome, Vegas, Egypt , etc you can pick up one of these for much less than a plane ticket.