Work & Play while on our way to LA!

As I type this blog I am in the car heading out of Arizona and to LA, CA to ride as many roller coasters as we can cram in to 4 days.

My son is a roller coaster enthusiast (you can see the little roller coaster website I set up for him) and since the relatives we are visiting in Scottsdale, AZ do not have the week off, we are taking the kids further west to hit 3 coaster parks in 4 days.

OFF TO LA, CA! That's about a 5-6 hour drive just to ride roller coasters. Yes, we are A BIT NUTS. But we love to have fun!

And what does this have to do with website design, you ask?

As a small business owner, going on vacation 10 days doesn't really mean total vacation. But with mobile technology, I have the best of both worlds! I can work (or play) in the car with my mobile broadband card and my laptop. The 5-6 hour drive from Scottsdale, AZ to LA, CA used to be boring as h*ll. But now I can do this:


As the kids are listening to ipods, hubby driving, I can take a break from updating a website and snap a family photo! I took the above photo using photo booth on my MacBook Pro.

Mobile Technology is just the coolest thing to me. I can catch up on projects, check my facebook, show photos of our trip immediately. It's amazing and allows me to keep my clients and my family happy. Using this otherwise useless time in the car as time well spent.

My family loves this new technology too. The teen can use video chat to keep in touch with friends at home so she doesn't feel she's missing anything. And my son has been checking the park maps to plot our strategy as we enter the parks. Speaking of which .... My son says these are THE coasters we are going to ride:

Six Flags Magic Mountain
Viper
X and X2
Superman the Escape
Goliath (shown in the video at the end of this blog)
Revolution
Batman
Scream
Déjà vu
Riddler's Revenge
Tatsu

Knotts Berry Farm:
Ghost Rider
Pony Express

California Adventure:
California Screamin

So work a little work and a lot of play ... it's working! BRING ON THE COASTERS!