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« on: January 16, 2024, 09:03:41 am »
O.P., you're setting yourself a high bar. I'm going to suggest backing off a step for daily updates; as John and John note, it took me about an hour a day to maintain a journal with (usually) daily updates.
If you plan to meet your high professional standards, I'm guessing it'll take four hours a day with overnights in B&Bs or motels. You might try an S24O (sub-24 hour overnight) trip with all the bells and whistles to see how close my guess comes to your experience.
Please, please, please, do not post 24 pictures and 3 videos per day with zero text! Nobody but the poster knows why you took most of those, and you'll forget in a few years. A good journal/blog needs at least a couple sentences, preferably a paragraph, to set the context for each picture.
IMHO, a trip journal is about the traveler's experience. If you normally observe things from 25-100 off the ground, take a drone.
To limit your load, I'd suggest one reasonably good camera and maybe one video device (like a GoPro). Some people do much more, like the people 30 years ago who took two 35 mm SLRs and five lenses. Have you thought where to put all your clothes, rain gear, spare parts, food, and cooking gear?
If you want to make more of a production, perhaps you might consider keeping a simple journal while on tour; where you went, a two minute highlight with half a dozen pictures and a video with captions and explanatory paragraphs every day, for instance. Go ahead and take lots more pictures and videos, archive and index them, and spend a few weeks when you get home making that professional production.
And for the sake of your own sanity, accept that you're going to miss some highlights. I didn't take my camera to the city water park in eastern Colorado where we scampered about for 15 minutes at the end of a scorcher (the camera wasn't waterproof!). Nor did I catch the bald eagle which came out of nowhere and dived into the river beside the road, flying off with a fish before I could even stop my bike to grab a camera. Those are just etched into my soft tissue memory -- and I'm happy to have experienced them.