New Q&A Widget from Travellr.com!

I've been extremely busy travelling mostly since my last posting (Yes! I LOVE my job!)  I have been equally grim in my vow to use Everlater, starting with my Vancouver trip....so much for that.  Truth is, my repository of travel information tends to stay in my head and if I am going to log into anything, I'd rather it be a "write once read everywhere" set up. Everlater was intended to be just that solution for me, but I am not in the habit of defaulting to it..I will try harder.

  One of the new things I have easily integrated is the Travellr.com widget of travel questions and answers on the platform.  It is a terrific network of global travelers committed to sharing and seeking travel gems. I think it is fab and have had a slew of great answers to my various questions.  You can see what I am up to in the community through the widget here, but why don't you also sign up as a member and get sharing?

The ever present grapple with technologies and travel chronicles

For the last few years I have struggled with the best way to capture my travels and the places I want to remember.  I don't mean the waxing poetic memories, but the practical aspects: locations, prices, room details, restaurants, tips & tricks learned on the road. I go from paper notes and business cards with the "One day I'll organize" it plan to the scattered applications of my iPhone: dropping pins on Google apps, specifics on Notepad, checking in with Gowalla and Foursquare, Twitter feeds to my blog, Uploading photos to Twitter and updating my blog (which I never do). 

I think I may have found something that can work: Everlater.  They have a free iPhone app, that mercifully works offline so that what I capture doesn't trigger bone rattling roaming fees, and it synchs up to my Everlater blog when I am on WiFi.  I also just read that with Everlater, you can mirror the content, maps and POIs into any webpage or blog. So here goes!

I am off to Vancouver and Toronto next week ad will give it a whirl. Unfortunately, I will still have to double up with posting to Twitineraries of my Twavels, but I think I can live with that.

Bellyband across South America

Our trip over New Years pretty much crossed central Argentina with dips into Uruguay and ending up in Santiago, Chile.

I did this route because I didn't want to be flying south or north of Argentina and weaving all over just for the sake of ticking the POI boxes.

I prefer overland travel as I see more of the country and have the flexibility to linger or accelerate the ports of call.

Not another travel blog

Well, yes, actually. Not that I am proposing this will blow the socks off all the others out there, but it does capture the highlights of my various holiday and work trips, with a specific focus on the spots, corners and random morsels that I encounter outside of guidebooks. And because my memory is appalling, this also chronicles the location and prices of the hotels and restaurants I experienced so that I can tell friends and others as they plan their own trips.