Ah, the Joys of Spring Break Captured on Video

No, Joe Francis has nothing to do with this.

I'm talking about you, college guy or gal, collecting those memories of these, which btw may or may not be the best days of your life, so that you can look back when you're old and fat and gray and pounding your keyboard every day writing in the hope that just once, just once in this world you'll ...

... oh, sorry, I spun out there for a sec.

Going to Cancun? Bring the right gear to enhance you vacay! More after the jump, including a recommendation from Retrevo, the website that matches people with the electronics they need.

This is the Canon HV-20 Hi-Def camcorder. It's the most affordable of the cams reviewed by Andrew Eisner at around $700.

He says:

If you’re thinking about buying a new camcorder you might as well go high definition or at least wide screen. You can get camcorders that record to good old tape, DVDs, flash memory, or hard drives. If you’re planning on doing serious video editing, tape may still be the way to go since applications like Premiere and Final Cut have been slow to embrace AVCHD the replacement format to miniDV.

Click over to his article at Retrevo for cams, GPS systems, chargers, digital still cameras and more.