Comments on: 5 Gadgets that may Ruin your Backpacking Experience

By: Keane

Keane — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:53:41 +0000

I love this! Spontaneity and adventure are key. Sometimes knowing too much can ruin everything.

By: Ahimsa

Ahimsa — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:09:08 +0000

I’d personally add the iphone. If you can’t disconnect from your smart phone even while traveling, you probably shouldn’t be traveling in the first place.

By: Matthew Crable

Matthew Crable — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:46:38 +0000

Zune and iPod: Most persons compare the Zune to the Touch, but soon after seeing how slim and surprisingly smaller and light it is, I contemplate it to be a instead distinctive hybrid that combines attributes of equally the Touch and the Nano. It’s extremely colorful and lovely OLED screen is somewhat scaled-down than the touch screen, but the player alone feels really a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as significantly, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, whilst getting just a hair thicker.

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By: Esteban

Esteban — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:20:55 +0000

Agree with everything, altough I’d definetly bring my GPS for geocaching and in order to create routes to geotag pictures later (I can’t afford a new gps enabled camera) for a travel blog, but if you’re bringing it to follow directions it would be better to leave it home…

By: RenegadePilgrim

RenegadePilgrim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:04:39 +0000

I’ll take my chances with a netbook and leave the internet cafes to those who want their identies stolen and emails hacked into. Thanks but no thanks.

My GPS is used for geocaching, not to actually find my way anywhere. Geocaching is a lot of fun and I’ve done it all over the world.

Not planning to take my blackberry, don’t use a curling iron, and really, who uses those translator devices these days?

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:53:22 +0000

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