We headed off in our annual skiing trip over Spring break this year and I thought I would try bringing the Amazon FireTV Stick with me. In previous years I brought along the our Apple TV, but that was difficult to disconnect from the home entertainment system and did not carry the same range of content we were used to at home. Our last attempt with Google’s ChromeCast did not go well mostly because of the requirement to talk people through how to use it.
Traveling with the Amazon FireTV Stick
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