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Probably 20 years ago I did this for 6-9 months. I had a CDPD modem for getting access to the Internet, which was ok for doing e-mail, chat, web browsing (though slowly), and SSH remote access. At some point IIRC I switched to some sort of a hot-spot. My job at the time was managing a number of sysadmins and the projects they were working on. I would also do some amount of sysadmin work, but it was mostly text based. It was wonderful to be able to spend a week out at a camp site by a river, or out in the woods. My setup was a VW camper van, specifically the Adventurewagen. It was quite comfortable for 4 season camping, but you needed to be economical with water. Power was also an issue, it had 2 "golf cart" batteries, and a tiny solar cell, but no generator. I would often end up running the engine to get power enough to run my equipment, which I didn't like doing for various reasons. YMMV. I rarely had access to plug-in power. Often I would charge up while driving, but it made it hard to park in the wilderness for a week. Today with better Internet availability, it should be even fewer technical difficulties. If I were to do it today, I'd probably get one of those "solid state generators" that is just a giant LiPO battery pack. Charge it up using an inverter while driving, or at a plugin. I suspect that cafe's wouldn't love you bringing in a giant battery pack to charge. At the time, in CA, cafes were requiring people plugging in to pay, not sure if that is still the case. |