Leaving one’s home is a difficult thing to do: leaving for college, moving, or (for some) just going to work! It is especially hard to leave one’s home AND one’s country. While traveling internationally, some Americans can get homesick. If you are in a different country for an extended period of time, loneliness can easily dominate your trip. If you find yourself forgetting the colors of our flag while abroad, (red white and blue, not white red and blue) watching some good old American television is a great way to restore your morale.
Unfortunately, re-runs of “I Love Lucy” and “Friends” get old quickly, and can lead to a strange affinity for communism. Don’t fear; you are still an American, just an American without a connection to current events back home.
Along came internet television; a godsend to the nomads of the globe. They can catch up on affairs overseas, whether it is watching the stock market, or just to see what antics Miley Cyrus has been up to lately. Soon enough, some media companies wised up, and blocked these homesick people from connecting with their familiarity. All the websites had to do was read your IP address, and once confirmed that you were not in the United States, you were on the blacklist, you got the boot, and quite possibly a “this site has been blocked” message. What is a poor traveler to do?
Simple. Use an anonymous proxy to convert your IP address from the foreign one back to one located in the U.S. While many of these are readily available, many are slow and easily recognized as a proxy, leaving a data trail right back to you. Using a software based proxy, such as Private Proxy, will allow you unrestricted internet travel from anywhere on the globe. You’ll never miss the morning news (or last night’s American Idol) ever again.
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