• AdamShand
• 2003-06-26

Wrapping Up

We don't know:

• What time the movers are showing up.
• When our plan tickets arrive.

But we do know:

• That the movers are supposed to show up on Friday.

• That it costs $3455.73 to move a small room full of books, and miscellaneous possesions from PortlandOregon to WellingtonNewZealand with less then a weeks notice.

• That with elaborate usage of Alaska Airlines frequent flyer miles you can get two people from PortlandOregon to WellingtonNewZealand for $2,500 with less then three days notice.

• Air NewZealand doesn't do e-tickets (luddites!)

• That some travel agents are better then others (I heartily recommend Stephanie Jung at Voyager Travel in CannonBeachOregon).

• Where we're staying when we get there.

It's been a crazy week but we've made progress. We're totally burnt but managing and it'll be nice when this is all over.

I stopped by my last PersonalTelco MonthlyMeeting tonight. After explaining why I was leaving so suddenly and briefly endorsing NigelBallard for president I wanted to remind everyone why we were doing all this.

While many of us are mainly in it for the learning, the tech and the free surfing there's more to it. We are capable of building a network that no one can control but us ¹. We are capable of extending the network to places where the incumbants can't serve. We are capable of extending the network to places that the incumbants don't want to serve. We are capable of keeping the pressure on the commercial operators and making them serve the publics best interests. We've done a lot of ground work that can help us achieve all this over the last two years, but we still need to focus our attention and actually get this thing done. Lets not get too distracted by all the new toys, this is a digital divide tool and should be used as such.

It was nice to see everyone one last time, I'll miss hanging out and dreaming.

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No worries, I hear dreams travel across the 'Net almost as fast as light. We already miss you. -Darrin