Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
An iPad and Mickey Mouse
This month, my wife Mary and I took our two kids, Ethan (eight) and Lauren (six), to experience all that Disney and Universal Studios have to offer in Orlando, Florida. This was our fourth family vacation to the Sunshine State, so at this point, between our other trips and my wife’s research, we are pros at running the Disney gauntlet.
However, the one area that always seemed to be stressful was the arrival at the Orlando airport and subsequent transportation to the resort. After a flight with kids, the last thing we want to do is spend time in lines waiting for taxis, shuttles or rental cars. So this time I decided to prearrange a car via Town Car Now. Since there were four of us, the cost wasn’t much more than a shuttle or taxi, and the promise of having a car waiting upon our arrival sounded like just what we needed.
Mobile LAN Trip Report
Mobile Internet Access
We setup a laptop in the van with a Verizon aircard and then used Windows to share that connection via wireless between the users in the van. We also had an AT&T aircard, and a couple of people tethered to their phones. We have been using aircards for years, but not this extensively, not over this terrain, and not as a mobile shared connection.
Mission control in the van.
As expected, our only issue was data service. We had service from both Verizon and AT&T and both services had major outages on our trip from Cincinnati, OH to Fayetteville, WV. We knew we would have occasional drops, but we didn’t expect Read the rest of this entry »
Another trip, another crazy project
A network on the go.
Our mobile network will provide minute by minute image updates to a public website. We will also be tweeting, using the hash-tag of #lansol so you can follow us. I will be updating my blog with more information about our network as we travel down the highway. I will provide the link to the website once we depart. We also plan on providing GPS updates about our location. We depart about 1:30 EST, so check back then!
Arrival in Barrow
Alaskan Tundra
Once we arrived, we got our gear, piled into the pickup truck and drove to our “hotel” to check in. The hotel is actually just some shipping containers joined together into a building. Read the rest of this entry »
Let the Adventure Begin!
I have made it to Anchorage, and we don’t have to sleep at the airport! I am at a hotel near the airport to catch some sleep before we catch our next plane to Fairbanks, and then on to Barrow. So far the trip has been uneventful. The only thing of note was the great Salmon burger I had at Allan’s Seafood in the Seattle airport. Much better than I expected!
No Hotel in Anchorage?
I was reviewing my travel itinerary for next week . On Monday I fly out of Cincinnati in the evening, layover in Seattle, and then arrive in Anchorage just before midnight Alaska time. I then fly out of Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon, layover in Fairbanks, then onto Barrow. I arrive in Barrow Tuesday evening.
So I am missing a hotel Monday night in Anchorage. I have almost 16 hours between flights. I sent an e-mail to find out what the plan is. Hopefully it isn’t to sleep in the airport. I have done that before in a snow storm, and it is no fun! I don’t remember sleeping in an airport being listed on the release I signed? http://blog.timrettig.com/2009/06/07/scariest-release-form-yet/
