My now annual trip to Holland is coming up in 7 days; 12 hours 40 minutes, I can’t wait.

I am busy preparing stuff for the trip including:

Packing, Finding a Parking spot for the car, ensuring that my bills are paid while on vacation.

The latter two are easy, the first however, can set the tone for your trip, good or bad. one thing forgotten, might not make much difference, but several things, or something very important or practical, is very, very, disruptive.

So in some particular order, the following need to be packed:

• Clothing
  • Sweaters (Holland in spring is cold)
  • Long Jeans
  • Sweaters
  • Socks
  • Underwear
  • T-Shirts
• Bath Stuff
  • Shaver
  • Deodorant
  • Toothbrush
  • Toothpaste
  • Hair Gel
• Tech
  • Camera (Canon Rebel XSi, Sony Point and Shoot)
  • Batteries (5x Canon, 3x sony)
  • Memory Cards (3x 16GB Sandisk Ultra III SDHC,  2x 8GB SDHC, 2x 4GB MSPD)
  • Extra Lenses (18-55mm, 70-300 Macro)
  • GPS Data-Logger
  • External Harddrive (1TB)
  • Macbook Air – Aperture Installed, 10.6, Office 2011
  • Recovery Media on Harddrive (Oopses Can Happen)
  • Mini-Displayport to VGA Adaptor, and a Mini-Displayport to HDMI
  • iPad
  • Jailbroken iPhone 3g for use on t-mobile or Vodaphone
  • External DVD Drive
  • Power Brick
  • United States Power Strip and ONE Adaptor – This to be explained next
  • Extended Range Wireless Bridge – Explained later
  • Video Camera (Sony HD Tape Camera)
  • Speedlite 430-EX camera
  • Bluetooth Keyboard