The Return of @Rishegee

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Rishegee

Greetings, my lovely nerdlets.

Some of you may have been worrying, wondering, crying, lamenting – where has this nerd been?

It was a sunny day back in May – I lie, it was probably rainy, actually – that I left the shores of my home in Melbournetown and embarked on the Fabulous Tour of the Universe TM. And while I sipped from a coconut on the beaches of Koh Samui, climbed mountains in the Galilee in Israel, danced til the early hours in the halls of Barcelona, explored the beaches of the Southern Mediterranean, and made best friends with every hostel-dwelling backpacker from Switzerland to Southern Spain, I did not fail to remember my nerdy heritage.

Of course, I was the one who purchased the audio guide in every museum, from Malaga to Paris, Granada to Bern. Resident nerd lady also narrated Lonely Planets for fun as we road tripped through Andalucia, interrogated the walking
tour guides in Valencia and Seville, and insisted on visiting every Roman ruin, or ‘pile of rocks’, encountered along the way.

My iphone was my best friend, albeit not a completely reliable one as my clock, notepad, address book, maps, jukebox, camera and – oh, what was it again?

That’s right – PHONE and INTERNET connection ebbed away by midday from overuse and, perhaps, over reliance. I discovered the modern way of exchanging details in a youth hostel – forget scribbling addresses, phone numbers or even email addresses down. In our glorious age of social media, it’s enough to simply proffer one’s iphone, logged into Facebook and ask your companion to search for themselves. Suddenly, you’re finding that it’s been a month, you have 50 new Facebook friends, and not one have you actually requested personally – they’ve requested themselves, and there’s nothing to describe the excitement of seeing the notification of confirmation come back when your new best friend arrives back in their country.

Google Maps, Foursquare, currency converter apps, and of course our beloved Facebook and Twitter – these are the new essentials for travelling in the new millennium, and I’m not sure how I would have survived otherwise.

Fabulous Tour of the Universe, T to the expletive M. It was brilliant, it was beautiful, it was nerdy and it was unapolagetically awesome. Stay tuned for more nerdy travel tales with Rishe G’s bednight stories. It reads like a Foursquare history on steroids, and I can’t wait to share it with you.

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