[pct-l] Pocketmail out of stock until end of April

[Judith G]

I met a bicyclist who was cycling cross-country last year and he  
showed me the device he was using to keep a journal at  
CrazyGuyOnABike.com.  It was a small computer (size of a deck of  
cards) with a separate folding keyboard.  The keyboard "spoke" to the  
computer via BlueTooth, and he would use it in his tent every night  
to do his daily journaling.  Then when he was someplace with WiFi  
(library, motel, Starbucks, etc.) his tiny computer would upload to  
the internet.  Whatimpressed me was that the the folding keyboard  
opened up to full size, which looked a whole lot easier to type on  
than a PocketMail device.  I have never used either one, but I did  
follow his journal as he continued his trip so it seemed to work for  
him.  These are the components he used:

> My computer is an H.P. iPAQ 5915 and the keyboard is a Think  
> Outside blue tooth jobbie, I don't know the model number offhand.

I don't know that this will completely translate over into the PCT  
hiker world, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone is looking  
for an alternative to Pocketmail.  The keyboard seems to work with  
many different types of "computer" devices, including "smart  
phones."  Again, I don't have one and just trying to compose a  
literate email describing what I saw has exhausted my pitiful fund of  
knowledge about such things.

Two Legs