Adelaide Hostel Common Area

I can't imagine traveling without my laptop these days any more than I could imagine it a few years ago, but for different reasons -- I'd have never looked for a wifi connection (in fact, although someone was doubtless clued in, I doubt we computer commoners knew what wifi was then) and the thing weighed a zillion pounds. Last night, though, as I hopped on the free wifi from a couch in my hostel's common area, I noted that out of seven of us loungers, five were tapping on laptops. And two of those folks were actually headed out, or they might very well have hauled forth their own laptops. Regardless, five out of seven is a lot of laptop luggers in one hostel living room. San Francisco's Adelaide Hostel owner Gerard O'Boyle told me this weekend that (keep reading "Backpackers, Bucks and Techno Travel"...)

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