[comrade]

Hi everyone, I'm about to head out traveling for several months to South East Asia and am wondering whether it's feasible and practical to set my Mac up for remote connections while I'm on the road.
While traveling I'm obviously going to be taking a lot of pictures and videos and it would be nice if it were possible to be able to log on to my Mac remotely and transfer files securely and reasonably quickly from computers during my travels. Also I have an ipod and if it stopped working or was stolen it would be nice to be able to buy an ipod and be able to reacquire my music.

My first question is whether this is a sensible solution to my problems and my second is where is a good place to find resources on how to do this.

Another question I have is I know it's possible to carry around USB drives that can carry an OS on it. I'm wondering if this would be a good idea as one could have a personalized OS ready and waiting with relevant apps (such as skype and a program for connecting to my mac) along with some temporary storage for images and videos.

Again, I'm sorely lacking in the technical know how of this so any responses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any help.