Who has Time to Travel Anyway?
michaelsheehan
Travel? Who has the time or money to travel nowadays! Sure I travel...a lot! From the bed, to the shower, out the door, to the car, to the train, on the train, to work, and back again. It's a great trip actually. I get to read the paper and occasionally do some writing.
In fact, my writing is happening right now, as I travel. But, every time I want to write, I'm stuck with carrying around a laptop, hoping that my battery won't die, wishing that I had a camera to snap a picture and then save all of my thoughts. And then there's the problem of finding a Wi-Fi connection…groan!
What I really want to know is what you consider to be traveling! My wife, for example, is the chauffer and drives the family taxi and we put more miles on her car in one day than I do in a week. Who says the perpetual motion machine doesn't exist! It's our mini-van. With a busy family of 5 (3 elementary school girls), with crazy overlapping activities and barely any time to breath, it's a wonder that we can get anything accomplished.
So for us, there is no family travel. Well, maybe occasionally but not as much as we would like. Let me give you a hint on how our travel time works...(and note, all of these pictures were taken with the HTC Tilt 2!)…
Top photo: I travel these stairs about 10 times a day (to the car & back)!
Second photo: Letting my oldest daughter take some photos of me travelling.
Third photo: My daughter’s perspective. Can you see her in the mirror using the HTC Tilt 2?
Fourth photo: At 6Am in the morning, no one is happy travelling to work!
So here's the thing...it sounds like everyone's life right? I'm no different than any one of you. We are all crushed with the onslaught of daily routines and schedules, intermixed with the to and from various places, so how can you get ahead of all the travel madness?
Well, one way is to become super organized. Another is to be able to multi-task wherever you are. So how can you do this without lugging your entire desk, computer, phone, camera, calendar, what have you? Well, one way is to just "Lose It", that is to say Lose the Laptop.
And I guess that I'm going to be a bit of a guinea pig here since AT&T has supplied me with a HTC Tilt 2 to do just that...lose the laptop! In fact, all of the photos in this post were done with the HTC Tilt 2.
The "Lose the Laptop" program is pretty cool actually and not just for me. Over the next few months I'm going to be using the HTC Tilt 2 for a variety of tasks. This month, for example, it's all about TRAVEL.
But again, this is not about me! YOU need to get involved as well. How? Well first, you need to do what you are doing right now...reading this post. But don't just stop with mine, there are other participants as well. Once you find a person or post that you particularly like, you vote for it (or the person). And by registering and voting, you can win too! For example, a voter during April could get a $250 travel voucher for American Airlines and a chance to win one of these: an HTC Tilt 2.
April 1, 7:08 am