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Robert commented about Nakuru Kenya, On Tuesday December 29th, 2009 08:57:07 PM

As Kenya's 4th largest town, you have truly missed 'the whole thing'.

Would you say the same about America's 4th largest city?

You should cease travelling - your mind is not in the right place.

Robert, an Aussie who has landed in Nakuru and will spend 3 days/2 nights.

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Robert commented about Angeles City Blue Boar Inn, On Sunday October 18th, 2009 04:54:56 PM

Tick is alive and kicking and he sold the DMZ bar last year and have another place with hotelrooms and pub now in hensonville

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Robert commented about AMD versus Intel Computer, On Monday February 16th, 2009 11:33:00 PM

I have a HP andy, it looks very similar to the model you have, one thing I'm sure you've checked but it's worth me mentioning, when I set mine to "High Performance" in power management the processor constantly runs very hot even when I'm not doing anything strenuous, if I knock the setting down too standard then it cools down alot.

Other than that I've been travelling with my hp for a year now and personally being a techy I don't worry about warrenties, I can fix most things myself, replacing ram on a hp is easy, replacing wifi is easy, replacing the hard drive can be complicated depending on how much you need from the old drive. The one thing its almost impossible to replace is the motherboard, if something goes wrong with that you may as well buy a new one most of the time. That's the way I look at it.

Oh and personally if I had the money I would look at a good Sony, the Vaio series are well made, have incredible low power consumption and really are designed for travel, they are expensive though.

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Robert commented about Deflation is Needed, On Monday November 24th, 2008 08:40:00 AM

There is a difference between asset inflation/deflation and outright deflation andy, in asset inflation the stuff you own, houses, stocks e.t.c goes up while the price of consumer goods goes down because competition is a naturally deflationary process. Take a look at computers for an example of massive deflation, they get cheaper every year come what may. What we have now is asset deflation after many years of asset inflation, what the worlds governments are trying to avoid is outright deflation where people save. Indeed you and I would say people should save and buy what they need but if too many people go from spending to saving in one go then you end up with a recession, if managed incorrectly a depression. Too much money stops circulating and starts being hoarded by savers, this effectively makes money/cash worth more, this is whats happening now, the dollar as worlds reserve currency is becoming more valuable because people are saving and hence there is more demand for dollars. The problem with this whole scenario is that A) it's happening too quickly and B) even worse, the world or at least the western world has huge amounts of debt. Imagine a scenario where all that debt begins to be worth more instead of less, inflation means the amount of work you need to do to pay off your debts becomes less, because the value of the money or purchasing power of the money it's denominated in is worth less. Deflation means that the value of the currency is worth more, so you have to work even harder to pay off your debts, so naturally the worlds central banks are trying to fight off deflation tooth and claw because they fear the consequences of deflation, people save, don't spend, businesses go bankrupt, prices continue to fall, people save their money and wait for prices to fall more, a self reinforcing cycle that's hard to get out of, it's happening in Japan for about 15 years now.

The worlds central bankers reason it's easier to throw everything at the problem now than to enter a deflationary spiral and try and get out of it later. This is apparently a lesson they learnt in the great depression, the bad side of this is of course that inflation may come back stronger than ever, but that is a risk they are willing to take.

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Robert commented about Travel Lifestyle the Point of No Return, On Sunday October 26th, 2008 09:48:00 PM

Hi Andy,

I agree their is a point of no return. I am more or less there myself and I have been back for over a year. I was gone 18 months and I still find it difficult sometimes. I am 100% focused on getting enough money to travel perpetually off the interest. It's a great motivator. I think about it daily.

For those that want to come back I find it is best to lie and say you taught English abroad. No use trying to explain why you really were traveling all this time.

Cheers,

Bobby
TravelAddict.org

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