This post is more of a question.  What would you keep on hand while traveling?  I’m a writer-editor-filmmaker (editor?) attempting to become a world traveling writer-editor-flimmaking… so the question gets a little tricky.  The usual suspects of travel documents and related travel supplies make sense, but I’m looking deeper for much a much longer journey.  Documents you may need for work, checks, other paperwork… tax documents?  Other related ‘life backpack’ artifacts like photos, videos, media of any type.  What about massive footage from filmmaking inlays?

When planning for years of constant mobility, what would you keep on hand? and is there any quick access ways to keep that list to a minimum?

Personally…

I’m beginning to think I don’t need more than a thumbdrive + internet backup (for documents) and an external hard drive.  I don’t plan to have any printed paperwork, unless business requires it.

I am fearful though.

Any non solid state hard drive dies after time, and with the nature of travel, it’s difficult to decide on the right mass storage solution.  Most of my work and life don’t require high amounts of storage.  I’m a writer and editor honestly.  The difficult comes with the third facet of my life, filmmaking.  I edit independent films in DV and HD (DVCPRO).  These projects require massive amounts of storage.  Its looking like I’ll have to carry around HDDs for years to come.

Any ideas for the film-editor on the go when it comes to mass storage solutions?

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm and is filed under Days 21-30, computer.