Travel Bound

Well, here I sit thinking about where I'm off to in a few short hours. The picture to the left is indeed your clue to where I'm off to.

As I was getting things packed I was trying to make sure I had everything that I needed and wanted. After all was said and done I almost forgot one thing that was very important. My travel journal. As I have written before the travel journal is a very important book to take with you when travelling. Here is where I put everything from who we visited to the weather and then if I've done something really special photography wise I'll also write down camera settings, so I'll have this information for later. I also keep this information in one place so that whether I'm doing a write up in my scrapbook of my journeys or need to look something up I'm not having to hunt around for this information.

The other things I was trying to make sure I had with me was an extra memory card and batteries. It's always a good idea to carry extras just in case. For example batteries are a big thing - without them the camera is about a 5lb dead weight in your backback (at least my digital SLR would be). This can be very frustrating if you run out of power and miss something spectacular. Not to mention when travelling abroad the cost of said batteries can very, but you can be rest assured that they'll most likely be more expensive than from home.

Now when it comes to the extra memory cards you may want to look into having at least one more than you plan on using while travelling. I read somewhere that it was recommended to have a few smaller size cards vs one really large one like a 2GB. The reasoning was that if one card fizzled for some reason you still had another one to fall back on and could still download and burn to a disk and then take more. If you had a large one like said 2GB and it fizzled thats 2GB of unusable memory. This would also depend I think on how far you were traveling as to whether or not it would make a huge difference. Like batteries if you were to buy another card while traveling it could very well be more expensive than home so I guess what I'm recommending is to take the time and have what you need before you leave so you can enjoy your travels to the fullest.

So I'm off on my travels and will of course be bringing back a pocket full of memories as well as some images that will be great of the sites and scenes of England. I'll catch everyone up when I get back. Who knows maybe I'll come back with a good lesson to share too - you never know.