an adventure & an experiment

Sunday I will be heading north to Bellingham.  Youngest Daughter has been selected to participate in Western Scholars Invitational, which is a 3 day program put on by Western Washington University for high achieving high school seniors.  I am taking advantage of the trip by dropping her off and then heading to a hotel for the duration of the event.  That means that from 11AM Sunday until 12PM Tuesday I will not be responsible for, or obligated to, anyone.  It has been at least 22 years since such a thing has happened and I am looking forward to it like you can not believe.

The experiment part has to do with technology.  Because Husband needs my computer to facilitate his job search, I will be leaving it behind.  At first I thought this was a bit of a crazy idea, but then I remembered the fancy new ipod in my bag.  With it I can stay connected in all of the ways that I like to be connected, and this morning I learned how to send a photo from the ipod to flickr.  This means I will have no problem keeping up with Tour de Fleece updates. 

I am pretty excited with the idea that I can do everything without having to lug a cumbersome laptop around.  The only draw back to this plan is writing.  We will see how difficult it is to write blog posts.  Any fiction is going to have to be done the old school route, with a Moleskine.  My fingers ache a little at the thought.  If this weekend is a success, than I doubt I will do much traveling with my laptop from here on out. 

Do you travel with technology?  What do you use?

Comments

[Anne]

I no longer travel for work (YAY - December trips to Pittsburgh were the pitts). However, my husband DOES, and he has his company Blackberry, his personal BB, a small laptop that is one of those that doesn't do everything - just email, websurfing, but no MSF Office stuff, and then, if he has some presentation to do, or he's crunching data he ALSO takes his company laptop. And he wonders why his shoulders hurt.

[Toby]

We still take the full size laptop with us on trips. I have an ipod, but it doesn't have a camera. I'd like to have a small netbook to use for personal trips and then we'd only have to take the full size laptop if it was a working trip.

[kate]

When we go to Victoria to visit friends and shop twice a year we take the laptop. Otherwise all our traveling is beyond the range of any wifi or electricity, so it's a moot point.

[Julia]

I usually see traveling as a way of getting away from technology, but I have taken my laptop on trips when I felt I needed to be connected. Taking a break is nice.