Is there anything better than the cloud app

I am new to the "cloud" and although I understand FTP pretty well, I don't understand the cloud very well. I am going on vacation with my ipad and want to take along some word documents and an mp3 file to transcribe some audio.
I have the pages app and can drag the word docs into pages and the .mp3 into itunes, but this is a projec that I want to save in a folder. Anything I create I want to save in a folder and want to be able to download it to my MAC and visa versa when I get home.
Anything free app out there with the ability to let me download and store a folder. Can I also have full access to this folder on my ipad without having pages documents and mp3 documents spread all over my ipad?
Hope this isn't to confusing. I wished Ipad had a usb port.
Thanks

I agree on DropBox.
In DropBox, Favorite (Star) the files (documents, MP3...) when you are on-line. They will be available when you are off-line. Test access to your files in Airplane mode before you leave home.
To bring the document into an app (e.g., Pages), use 'Open In..'.. the MP3, you can just tap in DropBox.
There are solutions to get files back from different apps to DropBox, but honestly it is probably just easiest to email it to yourself (and then use your Mac to copy the final file back to DropBox for reference purposes).
Have a good vacation.

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