10 Things We Learned Before Traveling
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Little did I know that I would already be living life as a backpacker before leaving Canada.
Staying at my parents house that has the internet and television disconnected for the winter while they are in Florida has been a warm up to the situation that we will be facing abroad.
We have been spending our evenings at the local coffee shop catching up on emails and blog posts, negotiating with advertisers and finalizing the last of our banking.
Well, even in a developed country like Canada problems can arise. The Internet has gone down and at times it has been slow.
Oh how we miss our home office.
Plus with all of our Iphone woes, we have had to make 2 seperate trips to Toronto 2-hours away to visit the Apple Store before leaving.
While we are traveling, we expect these little mishaps along the way, but to have them start before we even began is a little bit frustrating. My fear is that people are going to think that we are not going to post regularly while we are traipsing around the globe, but believe me, we will be.
I didn’t start our scheduled posts yet because I thought that I wouldn’t have to, but I have learned a valuable lesson. Have a back up plan.
However, it has already been an excellent learning experience.
10 Things We Learned Before Travel
Here are some of the things that we have learned while not having an Internet connection at our beck and call.
- Schedule posts ahead of time.
- Su.pr those posts so that they will get noticed on Twitter and hopefully StumbleUpon.
- Use HootSuite to tweet your favorite blogs. This is an incredible piece of Information that we received from Anthony of the Travel Tart. We can only program 10 people but at least we can be sure to support our fellow Bloggers when we can’t make it to the Internet. We would love to be able to add more but as of now, 10 is the maximum. No worries, when we do make it to a computer, we will always be sure to support the other bloggers that are not pre programmed and we will probably rotate our HootSuite Tweets.
- The Iphone is not reliable at all and we have to make sure to find out where all Apple Stores are located in each country that we visit. We have gone through 4 Iphones so far. None are able to be unlocked yet. With the new version, there seems to be a bug that causes us to lose our wifi connection on the phone. However, all we have to do is restore the phone and take it back to Apple and they will replace it.
- Which leads us to…extend our Apple Care for another year. Definitely a must because Apple seems to not care what goes wrong with the phone, they will just hand you a new one as long as it is under warranty and restored.
- We must accept that we are not going to be organized for the next few months. We may only be living out of a backpack, but we already cannot find anything. We waste more hours of the day (and I am not exaggerating when I say hours) looking for stuff. Today we couldn’t find my deodorant. After ripping both our bags apart and rifling through our carry-ons, we finally found it right where it was supposed to be. In my daypack only it was tucked into a pocket that I didn’t even know that I had. Right after that we were packing up to head to the Internet. We needed to bring our card reader for some photographs and once again, could not find it. We have two. We found one, but spent the next hour looking for the other because we didn’t want to leave the country short a card reader. We ended up finding it in a bag that was packed away to go to storage.
- This makes us believe that everyone should live out of their packs for a month before leaving. We have found many things that we thought that we had packed, but once we needed them, we found that they would have been left behind had we not moved out of our place early enough.
- Even with a list, things get left behind. We had the card reader checked off of our list as being packed. Obviously we unpacked it at some point when we needed it.
- Check your packing one more time before leaving. After tearing my back apart looking for my deodorant, I noticed that I didn’t have any shorts. I had all of my shirts packed, but other than my trekking pants and a pair of Capri’s, I didn’t have anything for my bottom.
- Have patience. We are so wrapped up in running a successful blog, that we are having a difficult time relaxing during our final days in Canada. We have lists of things to do and have put added pressure on ourselves over things that we cannot control.
So there you have it. We haven’t even left yet and we have 10 things that we have learned already. Just imagine how many things we are going to learn in 12 months!
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