Like most travelers I find it is the perfect way to stay in touch with my family through emails and friends via both email and my facebook account. Internet research time is a lot less costly that using the telephone. Few travelers have easy access to a land line phone and our mobile telephones can be charged at a high rate. 

Few Australian travelers can even shop around for competitive prices on phone plans; most gray nomads need to go with Telstra so they have a reasonable coverage around the country.  Those who head outback with some of the lower cost mobile phone plans soon find they are out of range a lot more of the time that they expected.

Best advice I can give from my experience, is make sure you buy the best memory you can afford. Ensure the lap top has a good cooling system if you plan to be on line for a while and use it indoors in the caravan, an unexpected gust of dirty wind can make a mess of the keyboard and internals of the computer. Computers like clean air. If you use the lap top computer in bed, place it on a tray so it can breath, don’t swaddle it in the donna cover, and let it overheat. Many of my tips are from learning ‘what not to do’J. .

I now invest my money in all small portable equipment I have a compact printer that fits with my computer in its bag and I work off the Telstra wireless internet system at the moment and I carry two one meter long antennas with me, one for the mobile phone and one for the wireless internet.We carry a Honda 20i generator the generator that has made carrying a generator on your travels a quieter, cleaner and more portable alternative if you need electric power in the bush to run a computer. I use silent solar power for all our other power needs.

If you don’t own your own computer, don’t attempt to do internet banking on anyone else’s computer and if you must use internet libraries be sure to change your password after EVERY use for any financial transaction and then SIGN OUT.

If you also travel with and use your notebook computer to access friends on facebook, I would love to have you add me as your friend so I can share your travels too. Gray Nomads learn all the best places to visit, from each other.  

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Kathryn Shell is a published non-fiction and fiction author currently working on an Australian Novel.
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