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Find Out the Local Weather Conditions in La Boca The New GoKite Weather Station Is Now Live!10/24/2018 ![]() Gokite Cabarete is happy to announce our new weather station located in La Boca, the famous spot where river Yassica meets the ocean, a few miles east of Cabarete. Besides the beautiful views and great food at Wilson’s Restaurant, to which you have to wait for a boat ride, provided by the restaurant,La Boca has been well know among many local and international riders for years. This is a great place for learning and practicing new tricks, while being surrounded by beautiful surrounding nature, flat waters, and nice, consistent wind. For those more adventurous, La Boca is also great to challenge yourself to a downwinder to Kite Beach, GoKite’s home. Because of La Boca’s popularity, we always wanted to provide accurate weather information to our local and international kiteboarding communities — similarly to what we’re already doing on Kite Beach — but have always ran into technical issues, due to its location. La Boca is a fairly remote area where the access to power is very restricted or non-existent, let alone the internet access… After exploring a few options with the local providers, and after analyzing the station’s requirements, we come up with a plan to use solar battery-powered device in combination with a wireless/mobile network for internet access. (A station of our choice, Holfuy Automatic Weather Station, consumes very little power for the meter and the wireless data server that’s built-in. Additionally, the data requirements/consumption is minimal, too, as the data is in text format and thus very “light.”) A few days after we received our solar-powered weather station — and after the heavy raining stopped— we finally made it happen! We had a great, productive day in La Boca, fun times and great food at Wilson’s, and our new weather station is now live. Next time you want to go kiteboarding in La Boca and wonder about the wind conditions there, head over to our Weather and LIve Webcam page. from GoKiteCabarete http://gokitecabarete.com/find-out-the-local-weather-conditions-in-la-boca-the-new-gokite-weather-station-is-now-live/ via Tumblr https://cabaretedr.tumblr.com/post/179401725678 Looking for unique travel gifts for family, friends or even yourself? Finding an unusual or quirky travel gift can be a challenge but we’re here to help! We’ve traveled the globe together for over fifteen years now, and in that time we’ve had a chance to find some unusual gifts for travelers that they will actually want! How do we know? We own or have used pretty much every single thing on this list. There’s something for everyone here, from unique travel gifts for her or him, to special travel gifts for friends going traveling. Unique Travel GiftsHere they are: our list of 40 unique travel gifts! There are gifts here that range from less than ten dollars and up, and they’re all aimed to make the traveler in your life happy. Travel Experience with TingglyWhat most travelers want above all is an amazing and unique travel experience. So a gift of one-of-a-kind experiences and bucket list adventures is a perfect fit. A tinggly gift is a unique voucher that lets the recipient choose an activity from over 350 experiences in over 100 countries around the world. There’s everything from hot air balloon rides to champagne cruises to whale watching and even hotel stays from which to choose. You choose the Tinggly voucher to give, and the recipient picks an experience (or experiences!) from hundreds of activities worldwide. They have five years to choose their experiences. You can choose to give a physical Tinggly gift box, or an e-voucher. It also makes a great last minute gift! You can get an e-voucher any time of the day (and even on Christmas morning, if you’re procrastinating that much!). You can find out more here –> https://www.tinggly.com/collections/merry-christmas-gift-box WiFi hotspotOur international WiFi hotspot has pretty quickly become one of our must have travel gadgets. Right now, we’re using the Skyroam Solis WiFi hotspot, which gives us unlimited WiFi wherever we travel in the world.
As a traveling family, we love the WiFi hotspot, because it lets us connect up to five devices at a time. You can rent the Solis for about $9 USD a day while you travel, or do like us and buy a device and get either a monthly, no contract Go Data plan or activate it for 24 hours at a time anywhere in the world. Our personal review of the Solis is coming in the next week, we promise! Find out more about the Skyroam Solis here. Packing cubesYou can never have enough packing cubes! Actually, you can, however you likely need more. Socks and underwear in one, spare shoes in another. One for pants, another for shirts and a final one for dresses or ties depending on what you’re bringing. Also, never hurts to have a dedicated packing cube for electronics if you carry more than what your purse or backpack can handle. Don’t forget you also need something for your dirty clothes to come back in. Sound like too many? That isn’t even factoring in kids, pets, winter travel or makeup and medications. Still on the fence? Just get more. We use these eBags ultralight packing cubes, which are lightweight, compress well and the mesh also lets us easily see what’s inside. See prices and details on Amazon now. Travel InsuranceSafety is sexy! Well, not really, but it can be a large cost in any travel plan. Every traveler needs travel insurance, but it’s pretty shocking that a lot of people travel without it. It may be practical, but travel insurance is also an unusual and unexpected gift for travel lovers. World Nomads has coverage for everyone from backpackers to families, and they cover nearly every country on the planet. Surprise someone with their own travel protection and if something bad does happen, know that they’ll be thanking you for years and years. TSA-compliant clear toiletry bag for air travelSeeing what’s in your toiletry bag quickly can save major frustration every morning and even when passing through security. We wrote a post dedicated solely to the best toiletry bags but if you’re in a rush, just grab the bag below and you’ll instantly be better off than nearly every other traveler out there. Unfortunately, TSA-compliant toiletry bags are necessarily small (a quart or litre), so it probably won’t hold all of your gear. What a lot of people do is take a quart size TSA compliant clear toiletry bag, and use it to store their liquids. They store other (non-liquid) toiletries and accessories, like hair brushes and tweezers, in another bag.
Here’s our choice for a TSA-compliant clear toiletry bag: the YAMIU toiletry bag. It’s a quart sized, clear, waterproof, and resealable bag that’s TSA compliant with the 3-1-1 toiletries rule. This is a two-pack that comes with two sizes for your wet and for your dry. See prices and more details here. GoToob travel toiletry containers for clear liquidLeaving for a weekend, but need your favorite shampoo and conditioner? Want to have some sunscreen for your week in the sun, but the only container you have is well over the 100 ml limit that the nice airport people will instantly confiscate? Well, you could just buy shampoo there, but likely they don’t have what you need and even if they do, it’s likely you’re going to pay a heck of a convenience charge. Grab some easy to fill GoToob travel toiletry containers (see our GoToob review here) and don’t look back. They’re cute, come in a variety of sizes, refill and clean easily and they don’t leak which is probably the best reason to travel with them. See prices and more details here. Photo backupGreat travel memories start with great pictures. What better way to preserve them than to securely store them online in the cloud? Amazon Prime comes with unlimited free picture and video storage. It also includes free music and a subscription to Amazon Prime Video. Oh yeah, someone said Amazon Prime even includes free shipping. Just kidding, that was the original use case for Amazon Prime but with so many goodies included with Amazon Prime these days, to us it’s only a bonus. Audio booksWhat’s better than reading a book while traveling? Listening to one! We’re huge fans of Audible and have a decent library of things we’ve listened to ourselves and as a family during our epic road trips. You can get an Audible subscription here and of you’re still not convinced, check out our list of the best audiobooks for road trips. You can get them all on Audible. Portable hard driveNot convinced about online backups, or maybe just traveling to some remote destinations and need more space than your phone or expensive DSLR camera can handle? Don’t worry, with this Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive you don’t even need a computer. Wirelessly connect it via WiFi to your phone or tablet or grab your camera’s SD card and backup those files quickly so you can keep on taking more photos! Available in a variety of sizes, you can choose the perfect size for yourself. Yoga pawsLove yoga, but don’t want to take a bulky yoga mat when you travel? We feel you. I take my yoga mat on every road trip, but it’s just too big to take with us in our carry-on, where space is limited. Enter Yoga Paws, which are slip on yoga gloves and non-slip toeless socks that are supposed to literally become a wearable, lightweight, yoga mat. Full disclosure here: We haven’t tried Yoga paws yet, but they get good ratings and it’s such a quirky travel gift idea we had to include them. See Yoga Paws prices and more now.
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