Next month I'm taking nearly a month off of work and doing the Trans-Siberian Railway, starting in Moscow, with a few days in Irkutsk in Siberia and Ulanbataar, Mongolia. Finally I'll end up in Beijing after nearly a full week on a train.
Since I will be carrying my company and personal Blackberry devices, I figured I'd do the following to keep my BB geek cred up:
Twitter (of course) with TwitPic (when I can find a good WiFi hotspot)
Facebook (I don't see how I can live without it!)
Google Latitude (maybe, depending on how bandwidth intensive it is)
Instamapper GPS update a few times a day so you can track me across Russia.
Let me know if there are apps, etc I should do while on the road...
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traveling is a great experience and although you're going to use twitter, facebook and other apps to keep updates, you might want to go the old route as well. take a journal and a nice camera! this way, you'll have your pictures and written experiences. just my 2 cents!
No experience with world travel, diverse BB apps, nor a serious interest in tracking you across the world (I know it sounded bad but I promise just let me finish...). But good choice on the Canon digital SLRs. I had one a few years back when I was taking photographs for an internet paintball website and I looooooooved it. Unfortunately school really kept me from continuing to pursue it. Hope you have an amazing trip though, it sounds like alot of fun and I WILL make it to Europe one day!!
Friday at 5pm CST I leave for Moscow, so with luck, you'll see a blog entry, some Twitter action, a GPS ping and perhaps a photo or two via TwitPic come Saturday morning in North America.
To add to this discussion, I've set up a self-tracking Web site to track my daily movements (includes historical data): themicrosoftarchitect.com
Where Am I Today? Where Have I Been?
Find out where I am, or where I have been. All data based on tracking information provided via Google Gears running on a Windows smart phone.