Re:Travel as light as you possibly can (Score 4, Informative)

I traveled around Thailand and Cambodia for 3 weeks and ultimately felt overburdened by the tech I chose to bring. I'm a pro photographer (although not a pro travel photographer) and the amount of gear I carried dictated the security level (and therefore price) of the places I would allow myself to stay. Ultimately this increased the price of my trip nearly to the cost of my gear. For communications I carried a palm TX with keyboard. This was lightweight and sort of worked out, but the wireless ethernet connect charges were outrageous compared to the cheap and ubiquitous internet cafes. Plus, the browser on the TX leaves much to be desired, so I ended up having to use the internet cafes for most everything anyway. In retrospect, after seeing how much I paid in hotels to help secure my gear (mostly cameras), extra batteries, converter plugs, wireless ethernet charges, etc, I would have been way better off traveling unburdened by all those electronics, and just brought a small camera, very lightweight tripod, and extra flash memory.