[thehawkins]

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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[songbird]

have fun on your trip!

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!

either way, have fun! you're a lucky duck!

[thehawkins]

I'm my Moleskine journal and two Canon digital SLRs as well.

[dylanbb]

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!!

[thehawkins]

I promise I'll make this Blackberry related:

Links:
Google Maps - Google Maps mashup of my trip.
Twitter / whereishawkins - Twitter account
Where Is Hawkins? - Instamapper web tracking.

In a way, I think that this is cool. I've used my BB all over, and it's preaching to the choir about how awesome they are.

[Cymru]

This sounds like so much fun, I'm so jealous! I'm all over your Twitter!

[BubbaUk]

I'll keep an eye on youe Twitter, sounds like an interesting trip!

[thehawkins]

22 days to go.

[Jamie_Pf]

I would def try out Google Latitude, that would be awesome to see where youve traveled!

[rekumaru]

I wish I could lucky you

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[thehawkins]

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.

[thehawkins]

Sweet. I leave tonight so 24 hours from now I should have some awesome pictures from my 8900 posted on Twitter.

[truazn]

Have fun & be careful!

[thehawkins]

In Irkutsk now. I hate to think of what my roaming charges will be.

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[thehawkins]

Ok, so I got my bill from T-Mobile, and guess what? No roaming charges since I added unlimited international email.

I'm writing right now from Ulanbataar, Mongolia and it works just fine and dandy. I even converted 2 people from iPhones to Blackberries.

[iobxchick]

Ok, so I got my bill from T-Mobile, and guess what? No roaming charges since I added unlimited international email.

I'm writing right now from Ulanbataar, Mongolia and it works just fine and dandy. I even converted 2 people from iPhones to Blackberries.

Haha- spreading the blackberry love across the world. Nice.

[TheMSArchitect]

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.

[bb_craze]

Wow how fun!