Today I will attempt to start packing some of my camping gear. This trip will be a little different than my Alaska trips which we usually camp for a week or two at a time. We will be camping for a few days and then spending a few days back at the motel. Shooting digital, I will need to recharge and upload photos to the laptop every few days or so. I usually get about 1000 exposures on a charge at home, but out in the field may be a little different. I'll keep ya posted on that.
Since I am 100% digital capture, there are things I have to think about and do a little differently as compared to when I shot film. Batteries and flash cards have to be replenished every few days. When in Alaska last year I could upload my images to my laptop and burn a few CD's while on the battery for the laptop. My HP laptop will go about two hours on a charge, so I will be in good shape. I only use the laptop in the field to upload images. I will keep my journal "old skool" in a paper journal and transfer it to the laptop when I get to the hotel. For the past few years I have used my Palm Pilot and a key board to do my journal. I then upload it to the computer and into MS Word. It work good, but I think I will try the "old skool" way for this trip.
I will also use Audio Blogger to do some posts from the road. If I find some Wi-Fi hot spots in Moab, I will upload some pics as well as some journal entries as time permits. I found 4 places in Moab that have Wi-Fi and hope to use them! I'll keep ya posted.
-mark
