Where Do Geeks Honeymoon?

And all this time I thought Arecibo was in Puerto Rico (PR).

From one cruise geek to another - have a -great- time, and color me jealous

Chris… I think you’re on the right track heading for the Carribean, but personally I couldn’t think of a more boring, limited trip then a cruise. Locked on board with 700 other people, told when and where you can get off and for exactly how long. I don’t care how luxurious it is, I want to be free to do what I want, when I want, where I want and to change my mind about it any time I want. Com’on… are you really that limited and afraid of travel that you’ll give up freedom of choice?

I say Caribbean: Yes. Puerto Rico: Yes. Just spend a week or 2 there, traveling around the island, exploring, discovering on your own. Free to do whatever you feel like. And, BTW, the Arecibo I know about is in PR, not NM. see: http://www.naic.edu/

Whatever, have fun, That’s what’s most important.

Fred

Hi Chris, I enjoy reading your columns. I must point out that you have transplanted the Arecibo Observatory to New Mexico. The observatory is actually in the city of Arecibo on the island of Puerto Rico. I was born in Arecibo and visited the observatory just two years ago while on vacation back home.

Rey, a proud Puerto Rican Gnomie!

Your #3, Arecibo, isn’t in NM, it’s in Puerto Rico. And well worth visiting on a Geek’s Honeymoon, especially one in the Caribbean. Enjoy!

Hey Chris,

IIRC, I found the GeekTools web site through LockerGnome several years ago. They have both an International listing of Hotels with High-Speed Internet Access and Wireless Hotspots.

http://www.geektools.com/geektels

http://www.geektools.com/hotspots

Maybe y’all should convince them that they also need to start adding a Cruise Lines list?

Bill

William A. Ford
Glen Allen, VA
http://www.WilliamAFord.com

Hummm… I see your Atlas is a little dusty. The “Arecibo Observatory” is located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and not in “NM” (Whatever that is!). So if you want to go to the Caribbean and enjoy a “Geecky” place go there. You and your other half won’t regret it!!!

Happy Honeymoon!!!!!

Arecibo New Mexico? You would probably like the scenery at Arecibo, Puerto Rico better (as in SETI). They are closed on Mondays, as I found out at the gates. While you were there, you could also take in the nearby caves and the third largest underground river in the world (also closed Mondays). My wife was born in Rincon, on the far West corner of PR Too bad that the cruise ship schedule will probably only allow a day’s sojurn in San Juan. For REAL Puerto Rican food, try Cafe Ochoa in Old San Juan, a block or two from the cruise ship dock It handles about 8 or 10 people and the locals eat there. It is also a block or two from Barcadi rum tasting.

As I Penn alumnus, I wiah to inform you that ENIAC was developed and built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Chris,

May I suggest Ireland for your Geek’s Honeymoon, where you visit Birr Castle which includes the Great Telescope and Museum. The castle’s Web site describes as follows:

“During the 1840s and starting from virtually first principles, the third Earl of Rosse designed and had built the mirrors, tube and mountings for a 72 inch reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world at that time and remained so for three quarters of a century. With this instrument, situated near the middle of Ireland, Lord Rosse was able to study and record details of immensely distant stellar objects and to provide evidence that many of these mysterious nebulae were actually galaxies located far outside our own.”

“Ireland’s Historic Science Centre contains astronomical instruments, cameras, photographs and photographic equipment used by the Third and Fourth Earls and Mary, Countess of Rosse, in the middle and late 1800s. Also on display is electrical and engineering equipment originally belonging to Charles Parsons and used in his experiments as well as a large area devoted to the botanical work carried out in the Demesne. The whole collection is housed in the restored stables of the castle.”

While you are over here you could also visit (among others) Valentia Island, from where the first trans-atlantic cable was laid, and my own town of Wicklow, birthplace of Capt. Robert Halpin who laid many thousands of miles of underwater cables. (Could Ireland be desribed as the true birthplace of the Internet, which is based on international communications networks?)

Love your newsletter - read every one.

Ian Hynes

Happy honeymoon, you guys!

I agree about the cruise, and the other remarks about the Caribbean and PR. Two other great spots are the Dominican Republic and Barbados, but for exploring, Puerto Rico is hard to beat.

Whatever you do on a honeymoon, the wireless hotspot is a must! (Computer optional)

Bill

Chris:
I recommend that you put Urbana, Illinois on the Geek Honeymoon List. It is the home of the Illiac’s, the first operation Williams Tube memory, and the home of HAL 9000 of ‘2001, A Space Oddeesy’ fame.

Hello Chris!

Through your newsletters I’ve been following your travels through life since even before Sprocket, so may I say congratulations. Being a cruise geek myself I totally agree with your choice of a honeymoon on a Caribbean cruise. I’d like to suggest to you and Ponzi my website for some tips. It’s http://www.cruiseknowledge.com/index.htm