Preparation......Electronics and tech gear

My wife always makes fun of me over how much tech stuff I take on our journeys.   To me it is just the essentials

First of all, here is a picture of the dash of the JEEP as we headed out last year.

The equipment includes:

valentine V1 radar detector
Garmin Nuvi 250W GPS
Motorola Droid Bionic smartphone
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7"   3G enabled.
Sirius Satellite radio ( For back country camping, it is great to be able to listen to news nad programming while off the grid.)

The capabilities are a great tool while on the road.   We love being able to look stuff up while driving as well as finding food, rest areas etc.    It is funny but the radar detector has saved me from tickets , more in town than on the highway.   In case the three standalone GPS units are not enough, I also have a GPS receiver for my laptop as well as full topographic maps for N America.   Overkill, maybe but we find some very cool places to get lost while exploring.

What else do we bring?    Lots!!!! I have one tote that is dedicated to electronics and tech requirements.  First of all, chargers for everything.   Phones, laptops, tablets, cameras..... it would be so much easier if manufacturers would standardize all the chargers.  Lots of 12V splitters and a 110 v power strip.  You can never have enough outlets

OK now the major list:

20" led HDTV with built in DVD player
15" Acer Ultrabook laptop ( Mine for photo editing and camera image downloads)
10"  Toshiba netbook laptop   (wife's for email, news and game playing.)
Motorola GMRS walkie talkies
weather radio
Canon 30d and 50d  dSLR cameras
18-200 lens
10-20 ultra wide angle.
135-400 telephoto
All the accessories for cameras above.

The place where we will be spending  most of our time has no cell phone signal and of course no Internet.   To get a really solid cell signal with 3G data, we need to drive at least 15 miles.   I have one spot that is about a 5 mile drive and a quarter mile hike to where I can get a marginal signal.   Both my Droid Bionic and the galaxy tablet can act as an Internet hotspot for our computers , provided we have at least 3G data coverage.   W are usually driving around all day so at least once a day we are in Internet/phone range.   We take about 30 minutes to answer important emails, transmit blogs and get phone messages.   When we get back to camp, it is nice to be fully unplugged as it forces me to actually read books.   (last year on our two week trip, I read five full books.   It is very relaxing.)

Enough on my electronics.   If you have any suggestions of other items that I should have, please place them in the comments section below.   Thanks for reading.