Your tool for this venture into a nomadic lifestyle is simple: a laptop computer. Don’t think you need to lug around more than a five pound computer. Actually, you can get by without a computer. There are thousands of cybercafes around the world, from tiny provincial capitals to busy cities. The famous backpacker hangout in Bangkok, Khao San Road, has numerous cybercafes with countless cheap and plentiful computers with Internet connections. I’ve used cybercafes worldwide from Phnom Penh to Rio de Janeiro with good results. A portable printer is not necessary since you’ll be sending your work over the Internet. Many third-world countries have poor telephone systems, but cell phones are ubiquitous even in poor, remote parts of the world.
February 20th, 2007