Trip is done, time to head for home. See everyone from the US (or from the airport, probably.)

Bring a bunch of business cards. If you collect them from people, write on the back why you might contact them again. For example if you talk to them and find out they own a MSP as well, you write that on the back, so when you get back you don't contact them thinking they were the VoIP guy you talked to. It's cool to meet colleagues in other parts of the country where you don't want to post stuff publicly, but since you're not competing, you can share numbers with them. It's nice to be able to hand them a card.

Set your out of office reply and someone else cover your phones. It sucks to have to talk time out of a conference to take a call or pound out an email. Your time there is so limited, you need to make the most of it.

Travel light and make sure you have room for swag on the way back.

@henriette said in Camera for travel:

You are planning to travel every year to new destinations and you have not any Camera except Mobile camera, this is very shocking for me. You have to buy any Point and shoot camera.

For deciding which point and shoot camera is good for you, I would like to share one article with you. Here is article link http://www.gadgetreview.com/best-point-and-shoot-digital-camera Using this review article you can easily decide which point and shoot camera is the best for your use.

According to me you should not buy drone because of Drone is very expensive and most of the countries are not allowing you to to use drone as you already said.

One option is there, when you need drone, you can hire it on rent. This is the best option for you.

Thanks for sharing the link. I am about to start travelling to different destinations from this year, so till that time the phone camera was sufficient, and i already got the camera, Canon SX60.

@Dashrender said:

I think this makes the situation even worse than I believed it was before.

It's one thing if Lenovo takes a piece of software from a 3rd party and just installs it.. that software then goes and installs a shim to the network to allow them to do whatever they want....

it's whole different when the vendor, Lenovo, actually modifies their own driver to install the shim as low as possible to prevent it's lack of use - it's one of those situations where "they couldn't have helped but to know how bad this was."

Yes, it is really hard to overstate just how bad this was.

@scottalanmiller said:

If I use my fingers to gauge the length of Japan, going from end to end of the main body would be similar to a Seattle to San Diego trip here.

Basically yes.

The common quoted phrase is "1/3 the population of the US in a land area the size of California."
That is not exactly right, but makes it easy to see on a map of the US.