San Francisco fog & Golden Gate Bridge
Death Valley
Las Vegas - Venetian Hotel
New York Central Park
Playa del Carmen beach before rain
Cocktails at resort pool
Chichen Itza
Santa Monica
Our last day was our longest, we took a 4 hour train ride from San Diego downtown to LA. Then bus to LAX airport and a 12 hour flight home. The flight went well, it seems the more long flights we do the easier they get. Flying during the night definitely helps, we left LA at 9:30PM and arrived in Auckland at 6:30AM ready for the a day of relaxing at home.
We had the greatest honeymoon, and want to take this opportunity to again thank our friends, family and work mates who helped make it possible!
Disclaimer: the following is technical stuff, not holiday stuff, written by Peter!
Gadgets we used on the trip
From our posts and photos we managed to get on the blog, obviously some of the technology from our trip worked well. Strangely enough we had more trouble finding internet cafes with computers in USA than in other countries like Thailand and Mexico. Most internet cafes or hotels in USA expect you to have your own computer, Wi-Fi wireless access was available almost everywhere but without a laptop or wi-fi enabled PDA it was useless to us.
1 The blog worked brilliantly for us, we were able to update the text from all the internet cafes we found. We had a little trouble positioning photos on the pages and could not upload them from some cafes at all.
The biggest drawback with a blog was our readers did not know when we had updated it. The technology for doing this is available in the latest web browsers (Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox) using a features called 'RSS','Feeds' or 'Live Bookmarks'. When more people have these web browsers they will be able to tell their web browser to notify them when our blog is updated.
Also we found people preferred to email us directly instead of posting comments in the blog. Overall it worked well and provided a easy way for us to keep everyone updated.
2 Cameras, we found that many internet cafes have heavily restricted computer so this prevented us from either connected the cameras, store files on the computers. We didn't find any computers with support for firewire so video from the Sony camera was never able to uploaded.
3 The U3 USB Stick was excellent when we found computers which were not heavily restricted. It notified us about malware and virus's on the computers we were using, also the ACDSee program saved a lot of time by allowing us to resize the huge photos from the cameras before uploading them to the blog. I even managed to make a few phone calls using Skype and update my MP3 player using myPodder.
1 comment:
Great work guys. Your trip looked amazing. Very jealous. The blog was an excellent way to keep up with your travels, although the RSS feed seems to have taken a while to update. Either that or the Google Homepage feature just wasn't updating every day. As soon as I saw a new posting though I had a read through to following your progress.
Was good to hear your U3 stick worked well (just got one myself!).
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