When we last checked in on the Skype Nomad, our intrepid traveler was just setting off on her 33-day, 'round the world journey to test Skype mobility. She was in "perpetual motion"--always on the move, with no hotels.

On Friday, Rebecca Campbell, 26, a copywriter from London, landed in New York, where she planned to check out Times Square and take a double-decker bus tour around the Big Apple.

She came to New York after spending a couple days in California. She was in San Francisco, where she rolled out in an RV with a non-stop talking rapper named Joel who took her to Disneyland. You can read the Skype Nomad's blog for more details.

Campbell said urban areas in the USA were great for making Skype calls to her family in Australia and friends back in the UK. The secret sauce is Wi-Fi, which is widely available in the urban areas. "Wi-Fi availability is fantastic in the United States."

Campbell used her laptop and iPod earbuds to make her Skype calls.
She tried out the 3 Skypephone, with built-in Skype, in the US. But of course it didn't work here. It's not supposed to. (Maybe someday?)

"The 3 Skypephone is awesome. You can talk to anyone on Skype, just like on a laptop. It's fantastic that you can forget about the cost and not rack up hundreds of dollars in roaming charges that catch up with you after you get home."

She said the 3 Skypephone came in handy in Hong Kong and Australia. It should also work in Denmark among her other destination as she heads to the finish line on D-Day June 6 at Skype supreme HQ in Tallinn, Estonia.

Campbell found that in undeveloped areas her communications broke down, including on a boat on the Yangtze River in China and in the heart of the Australian outback.

"Nothing works in those places. Not cell phones, Not anything," she said.

Another observation: The world may not be as small as we think.

Campbell said she was within an hour of the deadly 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China on May 12, killing thousands. But she didn't hear about it until she landed days later in Australia.

A friend back in the UK she was talking to on Skype filled her in.