Technology

Thought I'd end this with a description of the technology I used while on the road.

* Kindle Fire HD 8.9"
* Blogger-Droid software, from Anders Hedstrom, available on Amazon Appstore
* Amazon Basics bluetooth keyboard (You could do without this if you just want to use the onscreen keyboard.)
* Canon Elph digital camera with SD card
* Airstash USB stick and app, available at Amazon, and on Airstash's website (Only takes SD cards, not Sony cards)

Without an SD slot, there's no way to easily get pix off the camera's card and onto the Fire. Enter Airstash. Take the card from the camera, put in the Airstash USB stick. Turn the stick on, and it generates its own wireless signal. Open the Airstash app on the Fire, which will show you what's on the SD card, arranged by date. Open the photo you want, then transfer pix from camera card to the Fire by clicking the + button. Pix show up in Photos on the Fire.

To get the photo into the blog, click on the Photos button in Blogger-Droid, find photo on Fire, click on it.

B-D is the only reliable program for the Fire that works with Blogspot/Blogger, at least that I could find in the Spring of 2013. It's rough, but it works.

I read about Airstash in the Wall Street Journal a year or more ago, in a Walt Mossberg review, just about the time I first got a tablet and realized I'd just as soon never again take a heavy laptop with me when traveling. It's terrific. You can't use the Fire's wifi to connect to the Internet while you're connected to the Airstash, but that's temporary.

All the above is light-weight and easy to carry around. And reliable, have never had any problems with either software or hardware, once I trained myself how to use them.

And, I think that's all, folks!