Greetings to Komando fans. I’m Kim Komando’s Cool Site of the Day which is pretty cool (thanks Kim!). If you’re reading this, that’s a good sign – the site has been a bit busy from the newsletter this morning and I’m happy it still seems to be accessible. I think if you listen carefully you can hear the web servers panting to keep up.
Please, feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments. I’m sensing a trend in some of the messages I’ve already gotten this morning about flashpacking so I figure maybe I have some explaining to do …
First of all, I didn’t set out to “flashpack” across India. In fact, I hadn’t heard of the term when I boarded my flight to Delhi. I just wanted to share my experience and the old paradigm of traveling didn’t seem so friendly for doing that. Turns out that in going high-tech I unwittingly became the poster child for flashpacking. Who knew?
There’s actually some disagreement as to what flashpacking is. To some it’s pricier, high-end backpacking. Others have defined it as tech-heavy backpacking. I fall into the latter category. Certainly the way I traveled through India was different from previous trips but as Komando readers will understand it’s almost par for the course that many backpackers now travel with a digital camera, iPod and cell phone. Carrying all of those gadgets hardly seems extraordinary today – but that’s exactly the point: technology is really insinuating itself into travel.
The list of tech stuff I had with me is below …
