Where Apple Fandom Meets Wanderlust
Writing from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 1988, my parents bought my first Apple device. It was a Macintosh SE, and I fell in love. Over the years, there were Performas, Powerbooks, iBooks, iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Airs. There have also been countless iPods, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Airpods along the way.
Shortly after I got that SE, I began a lifetime of traveling. Family road trips led to touring the United States with friends' bands. When I began teaching in 1999, I had the time and resources to start traveling internationally. I remember the first time arriving in Bangkok in the middle of the night and wandering on Khaosan Road. I loved it. I quickly became obsessed with stepping off planes in new countries and opening myself to a world of possibility. I would leave hotels in new cities and deliberately get lost. Along the way, I've visited over 70 countries. I keep going back to some places, like India, because one visit is never enough.
A Dell Hackintosh Netbook running Snow Leopard. This computer was similar to the one I brought with me to India in 2009. Source: Flickr.
Long-term travel often means becoming a bit obsessed with gear. Over time, my passions for travel gear and Apple became intertwined. In the summer of 2003, I took my first iPod on a three-month Middle Eastern adventure; I would never again schlepp around a case of CDs. I remember the joy of building a tiny Hackintosh netbook in 2008 to have a genuinely portable writing machine on international trips. While sitting in a cafe in Istanbul in 2015, I started my blog Liberating Narratives on an iPad Air with a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard. I have many more fun stories, but that's enough for now.
An iPad Air with a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard. Source: Wired.
Wanderlust Apple Travel Junkie is my little corner of the internet where my Apple fandom meets wanderlust. It’s my place to talk about my travel experiments with Apple devices, the gear I use, and how I make working abroad with Apple devices possible.
