Dave & Meredith’s Travel Blog

It’s been a marathon couple of days but we’re in the home stretch and it feels like we’ll get out of here without forgetting anything major. Mer was smart and got some sleep but I pulled an all-nighter to get packed. I’m feeling it too. It’s surprising when you realize half (if not more) of your luggage is photo gear. People may think I don’t travel light but if I took the photo stuff away, I’d probably only need a backpack.

This time it’s exacerbated by me buying a underwater housing for my Canon G9 (can’t miss swimming with all the critters in the Galapagos!) but no one had Canon’s in stock so I bought an Ikelite. It arrived yesterday and it’s about 4 times the volume and weight of Canon’s - doh! Didn’t expect that. If it weren’t the Galapagos, I might just scrap the idea and send it back but I’ve had such fun with the housing for my SD550 in the past that I know it’ll be worth it. Now if I can just get past the airlines’ weight limits…

We’re new to the blogging thing so it’ll take us a few posts to find our style so please join us for the ride. I hope to be able to post pictures while we’re on the road. I have many photographer friends out there so I’ll also post some techie stuff from time to time on some of the gear I’m bringing, how well it worked or didn’t. I’ll flag it with the “Photo” category so if you’re not interested you’ll know to avoid it.

Our flight to Buenos Aires connects through Dallas so I’m looking forward to catching up on some sleep. Talk to y’all later.

I just re-read my last post (still procrastinating).  It was a little bit whiny.  Sorry about that.

I am psyched about the trip, obviously.

I haven’t packed yet.  It’s a little daunting because a) it’s a 5-week trip, and b) there are weight restrictions.  We just found out yesterday that we are each limited to 33 pounds of checked luggage and 11 pounds of carry-on luggage.  That’s not really a lot, especially for a 5-week trip.  And ESPECIALLY with all the technical camera goo-gobs that Dave is bringing.  Seriously.

Anyway, I’m clearly procrastinating on the whole packing thing.  I just got back from getting a pedicure, and I have an hour before we go over to our friends’ house for a bon voyage dinner.  It would probably be a great time to start packing, but, why not play with the blog instead?  That has to get done too, you know?