Picking up on this point...
Quote Originally Posted by Tannin View Post
...Oh, and look out for a good reader-card bundle. You will need a good reader anyway, and this can work out well.
I must stress this: make it a USB3 card reader!

Once upon a trip I forgot to bring my USB3 card reader! and
It meant that each evening I had to wait about 15 mins to download the day's pics from a
direct (mere USB2) connection to the camera. Yes, USB3 is about 15X~20X faster than USB2
for this.

And then also, make sure that as you build up your number of photos, you have some means
of external storage and backup. A couple of USB3 external drives would be the basic go here.
There's one thing that's worse than slow transfer speed: irretrievable data loss!