Traveling Technology

In my past travel logs, such as Baja 1992, I've mostly written them with good old fashion pen and paper notebook. I'd write out thoughts, ideas, experiences and such two or three times a day. When I got back from the trip, I'd then transcribe everything and either self publish or post it all online. That whole transcribing process was always just a royal pain and fairly prone to errors. This time I'm going to try something a little different. Most of the posts will be published online as they're written. And to do that, I'm going a slightly different route than usual. It'll be done all on my iPad.

With the iPad, I'm also bring a bluetooth keyboard, my iPhone, a Flip video camera and associated power adapters and cables. I'm pretty sure that shorter posts can be written easily on the iPad's built in keyboard but anything longer than a few paragraphs will start to get obnoxious. That's where the extra keyboard comes in.

I think that the camera on my iPhone will be sufficient for most of the simple photos I'll take and Mary will be bringing here Nikon DSLR to capture great pictures. And I'm hoping that the new Flip video will catch some interesting videos. Though I'm not yet sure how to get them from the Flip and online since it seems to want to do that through a computer. Perhaps I'll be able to use an internet cafe in Rome. If not, then they'll have to wait till we return home.