Changes in travel
When I moved from Florida to Seattle, and then on to Alaska, in 2001 I started a blog to keep my family and friends informed. We were in an accident the second day, and even though I took digital photos we had to go to Kinko’s to load them onto a computer and email them. Internet wasn’t common, there was no such thing as wifi or broadband. Our only hope of connecting was a local phone number for a dial up connection through one of our provider—but the catch was that we had to check for the numbers before we were in the location and write them down to bring with us.
Even after paying for time at the copy shop to get the photos up there, hosting was hard to find. The blog I was using didn’t offer space for photos, and when I tried to upload them to a site I had hosting space on my account was frozen for pulling it from an outside page.
Fast forward to my road trip out of Alaska, through the Yukon, into Portland and then across to Pittsburgh over six years later. Wifi or broadband in every hotel and most places we stop for coffee or food as well. Cell phone coverage through the entire trip, plus cell phones that send photos and videos and audio clips. GPS to find what city will have dinner and an available hotel room.
Wow, things are so much easier now.