Planning, planning and more planning

Now that summer is here, all of us going on this trip are getting a bit anxious to start planning. We have set up one of those Yahoo groups to cordinate everyones ideas for the trip. That is turning out to be the best idea we have had for planning this trip. The yahoo groups are free to use and you have your own private message forum, a place to share files and pictures, as well as online databases. Those are working out great for us in putting together a packing list, given that there are 4 of us travelling in 2 cars there is no reason to bring everythin twice.

Meanwhile we have had the Yahoo groups for two weeks and we have been using it almost daily filling it with ideas, web links to interesting websites and other stuff somehow remotly related to the trip.

We have also started putting all the information on our new laptop which we hope will work sort of as our mobile command center when we hit the road. Because the world doesn’t stop just because the editor in chief goes on vacation. But I will get more into that in another post.

We are definitely excited about the trip and are itching to try out the new equipment, as well as our old stuff. There is another long weekend coming up, let’s pray the weather turns out to be nice.