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First Experiences of Blogging on the Road

Well, my first attempt at blogging while travelling was met with mixed success. I suspected it would be which is why I decided not to try and update all my blogs while away. That and I knew time would be a factor. Life is always busy when on holidays and I didn’t want to spend half my days trying to blog.

Before we left, I checked out the Free Wifi website. Funnily enough, this website has more paid wireless interent listings than free ones but it was still a very handy resource.

My biggest hurdle was the fact that our laptop is getting quite old and the battery is all but useless so I could only access internet where I had power. In fact, I didn’t end up even trying to find wifi spots and simply paid for internet access at the caravan park we were staying at in Canberra.

Before we head away on our 3 month trip, I plan to purchase a much smaller net-book style laptop so that I can:

a) compose blog posts in the car driving along

and

b) attempt to access more free internet. We really don’t want to be paying $20 a week for our internet access while away

One thing I have noticed is that there seem to be a number of caravan parks in Queensland that offer free wifi access. I think I’ll make myself a list of potential caravan parks as they could well be a deciding factor in staying there or not. It would be nice if we only needed to pay for internet connection some of the time rather than as a regular expense. As we’re planning on using the internet as a way of the kids keeping in touch with their class back home and as part of their school work, we will need to be able to access the internet at least once or twice a week.

Windows Live Writer was a FANTASTIC tool for blogging on the road. Especially for the kids who can take an hour or more to type up their blog posts. It meant they could write their post offline and it only took me a matter of seconds of internet time to post it. It also meant I could write blog posts without a connection and publish them at a later time with ease.

I was really disappointed with the quality of the internet connection we paid for at the Canberra Motor Village. The first two nights it worked fine and after that the reception was patchy and I lost quite a bit of time with losing internet coverage part way through a session. This meant that I lost 15 minutes as it had to auto-log-off which it only does after 15 minutes of inactivity. We probably should have complained but in the end the 5 hours we paid for was enough to do what I needed in the week we were there. I only hope that it isn’t a problem we encounter on a regular basis while we’re travelling next year.

So, my first attempt was met with a few hurdles but at least I got a taste for it which will hopefully help me get organised with what I need before we head off next year.

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