[DM-MUG] Photo wallets (drives) versus a small iBook or PB... and solar power things

[Victoria L. Herring]

I am in midst of planning long trip overseas next year and I need to 
be able to download and save/protect images -- there are storage 
drives for photos [the Epson P2000 comes highly recommended] and 
another option is to take along a laptop to download and burn to, 
with the added benefit of an ability to be online if needed/wanted. 
Any suggestions of which might be best?  I do have an iPod reader but 
it didn't work while I was gone last week and I'd just as soon have 
something dedicated to the task.

Another Q is = electricity will not be always present and I'm 
thinking a good solar battery or recharger thing might be a good 
thing to take with...any ideas or suggestions ref. that?  It'd be 
perhaps better than hauling AA batteries all over.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Civil Rights, Discrimination & 
Employment Law, <http://www.HerringLaw.com>;  Travel research and 
planning, <http://www.JourneyZing.com>;  Des Moines, Iowa, 
515-255-4475.  Photographs now on display in Marshalltown, Iowa: 
http://www.thebrooksgallery.com/featured_artist.htm