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I travel Sunday night through Friday afternoon for work. I fly to random places for work, currently in Shelby, Montana. I was looking to take up a hobby while I am away from home. I bring my camera with me on occasion, but I like to pack light (carry on bag) so I don't always bring it. Does anyone have any tips for what they do as a hobby that would be travel friendly. About the only thing I was really thinking was working on watches. I like to take them apart, age them etc, but I am worried about all the small tools and TSA being picky.
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Oct 25, 2016 04:41
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3DS? Come on, man. You didn't really tell us what you're into besides watches.
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Oct 25, 2016 07:30
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So current hobbies, I am building a 1954 Chevy Truck, I enjoy taking pictures, I collect watches. I was thinking about building a ukulele, and that would require a checked bag. Or looking for a travel case for my mountain bike. I have read a few books while traveling, and I will continue to do that, but I would like to get out and be active. Last week I spent an hour or two every evening walking around Lincoln, NE and took some nice pictures. I guess mainly what I am asking, is what are some hobbies that are time consuming, don't require much space, and are easy to travel with. I would even enjoy model cars, which should be doable because the paints and glues are under 3 ounces. I would just have to brush up on the FAA regs.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:27
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Knit or crochet, needlepoint, painting (watercolor in particular lends itself well to traveling), drawing, writing, beadwork, lap weaving, origami, juggling, parkour/ running/ Bodyweight exercise, computer programming. To name a few.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:49
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If you like photography then editing and organizing them takes time. Make sure you have a laptop that can deal with editing and either Photoshop or Lightroom installed. You could also take it to the next step and start vblogging and using your camera or I-phone to take video.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:19
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Birdwatching? A book or two on birds (or even a phone app like Merlin) some binoculars, and a pen and paper, if you're into recording and checklisting. As a bonus, you can be pretty active doing it, if you wanna hike around. Or you could just sit at a park and try to tell apart all the different sparrows and assorted little brown birds. By traveling, you're setting yourself up to see all sorts of great birds. Birds are plentiful, varied, and really interesting animals. They can be very smart or dopey as hell, and watching them is great entertainment. You already mentioned photography, but unless you bring a sizable lens with you, it might be an exercise in frustration. Here's a birding thread! Rotten Cookies fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Oct 25, 2016 15:45
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So nature photography sounds like a good one. I have a Sony NEX5 with lenses from 18mm up to 55-210mm. So not too much in the way of telephoto lenses. I am looking at buying an iPad Pro 128Gb 12", I currently just have a Windows work laptop that is pretty weak. I will start looking around the photography threads and researching that. Any basics I should know/items I should have for birds, animals and nature?
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Oct 25, 2016 16:36
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The making GBS threads Birds thread How to shot birds, with camera Wildlife Photography Thread If you're going to zoos or duck ponds and stuff, you can get decent animal photos with shorter lenses since they're, y'know.... not really going anywhere too far off. That, or fairly tame animals that are used to human presence and aren't going to be running away. I dunno how knowledgeable you are on photography, or the poo poo that comes with working with longer lenses, so sorry if I'm explaining things you already know: If you want to take pictures of wild animals in the wild, that are going to run from people, you will need long lenses to reliably shoot them. Even then, you will be cropping a lot. Long lenses come with a whole bunch of other headaches and arm aches. They are, generally, bulky, hefty, and expensive. When you shoot with a long focal length, lens shake and shutter shake tend to be exaggerated. So to compensate, you have a tripod (that can handle your hefty lens) and/or have to up your shutter speed to freeze the subject and get the vibrations out of the equation. Then you need to let more light in and up your ISO and/or aperture. And it's a vicious, expensive cycle that has you damning the skittish little birds and your dumb, shaky hands, why the gently caress did I bring a 10 lb lens out here? Maybe I'm just bitter because I suck at bird photos and compare myself to a literal pro in the bird thread and get all glum about it instead of just shooting and enjoying like I should. You can still take very good and nice photos of birds and wildlife. Definitely start at a zoo or duck pond.
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Oct 25, 2016 18:18
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Drawing/painting/sketching. Pursue an online degree. Start a blog where you post about the most [whatever] thing you find in each town.
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Oct 25, 2016 19:46
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Good to know. A lot of the places I go to don't even have a Walmart or McDonalds, so finding a zoo will be difficult. I have seen a few Hawks today, and have gotten close to a lot of cattle. So I will have to work on sneaking up on animals. What set up do you use for editing?
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Oct 25, 2016 19:58
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Buy a gaming laptop and play lots of video games.
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Oct 26, 2016 19:30
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Learn to play the harmonica
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Oct 29, 2016 06:16
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Rabid Anti-Dentite! posted:So current hobbies, I am building a 1954 Chevy Truck, I enjoy taking pictures, I collect watches. I was thinking about building a ukulele, and that would require a checked bag. Or looking for a travel case for my mountain bike. I have read a few books while traveling, and I will continue to do that, but I would like to get out and be active. Last week I spent an hour or two every evening walking around Lincoln, NE and took some nice pictures. sounds like undergraduate mathematics as a hobby is the thing for you
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Oct 30, 2016 19:17
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Join the Hash House Harriers, a running/drinking organization with random rear end chapters everywhere. You'll meet local people, see cool local sites, and drink local booze. All you need are running shoes. In many chapters pants are optional.
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Feb 1, 2017 23:32
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Blog/review about the qualities of every bathroom you visit.
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Feb 3, 2017 15:49
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You might want to consider macro photography. It gets you outside and the lenses are definitely not as bad as a huge rear end telephoto lens.
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Feb 8, 2017 15:21
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having recently picked it up again I can recommend needlepoint as a highly portable hobby, I've been cranking out miniature pixel art cross stitch pictures on trains over the weekend, mario mushrooms and the like, all my threads, patterns and gear fit into a space the size of a large ice cream tub and if you pared down the colour selection based on specific projects you could get it down to the size of like an ipad
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Feb 8, 2017 17:23
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Geocaching.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:25
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Knot tying! I've been fiddling with perfecting my Monkey Fist knot, it's good fiddly fun to do while the tv or podcast is on. All you need is some paracord and https://www.animatedknots.com
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Feb 15, 2017 05:54
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I get a surprising amount of mileage out of a deck of cards and slight of hand tricks on youtube.
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Feb 18, 2017 23:24
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