DVD PORTABLE PLAYER ON TRAVELS?

Still don't understand what's to see out of a bus window at night. Ahh well, perhaps I lack vision and imagination. I guess you see fairies.

Good for you.

Dude, sorry to get back to topic but make sure you get a player that you can hack to be region free. There are various DVD regions in the world and if you can't make it region free, you won't be able to play discs while you are in different parts of the world. Why not just get a MP4 player? Smaller with longer battery life. Some of the Chinese ones even have 2 headphone jacks so that you can watch with a friend.

Sorry I'm not so sanctimonious that I need to attack and argue with somebody who wants to watch a DVD on their hotel balcony or a long boring train or bus ride while they're living their life and travelling with their money. I'm sanctimonious about other stuff.

And Sorry - I guess there must be something wrong with me not only because of that, but because I've also gotten over thinking I was better than other people who stayed in the local pub or restaurant for movie night while they were on their holiday - in fact I stopped calling them names as well as throwing sticks and stones.

I've also forgiven myself for once watching a DVD on a train and sharing my headphones with a local after putting the subtitles on in his language.

I guess I should also confess that there was that one time that I was feeling a little homesick and watched a video/DVD of my family while camped in the middle of nowhere during a storm. Please attack my sensibilities and belittle me for such weakness. I deserve it.

And while we're at it, can you please provide me with two hundred lashes for not faithfully following a guidebook and travelling on the same buses or going to all the same places as all the other backpackers. Shame on me for touring on a bicycle. That must be equal to the crime of having a DVD player.

Clearly these things have affected my imagination and chastisement is in order.

It's a sad world when backpackers -- you know, the type of travelers who are allegedly willing to go deeper and take more risks than the norm -- are so set in their hometown ways that they can't leave their comfort zones behind and push their personal envelopes for even a few months.

You've got decades of your life ahead of you to fixate on the personal cathode ray babysitter, and only weeks or months of it to dabble in another culture.