[4 weeks & 5 days until we depart for Syracuse the night before our flight out]

Well, I spent part of today cleaning up all the DVD-RW discs I had for the trip. I still had not copied over all the -RW discs that we wanted to keep as masters to DVD-R discs. It took about 3 hours to go through the 12 discs, decide what to keep and not to keep from what we had recorded starting with our trip to Hawaii in August 2007, and every other event, holiday and vacation since then….

Now, I have 12 reformatted DVD-RW discs and 12 new DVD-R discs for any video work we will be doing on our travels this May…. (8 cm discs). This will actually give us 24 hours of video recording capabilities on low res (60 min./disc), which is about 4 times as much video as I recorded on the last trip, so we certainly do not need to worry about running out of recording media….

Last time, I recorded everything on 4:3 ratio for our still old standard CRT televisions. But, this time around, I will be recording everything at 16:9 ratio for modern wide-screen TV’s in hopes that we will sometime soon be able to update to a new flat panel TV .