Saving documents on both iCloud and Dropbox

Hello there,
I love iCloud, it's great for address book and calendars and iWork documents and other apps.
But it's not dropbox, in the way that the documents you save (in my case it's mostly Numbers, Pages and IAWriter documents) are not on your hard drive the way that they are on your dropbox.
I work with an iMac at home, I have a Mac Mini at work, and a Macbook for travelling.
Sometimes I travel to places that don't have internet connections. So downloading from iCloud is a problem once I'm there.
I would love to find a way to save on both iCloud and Dropbox (or at least, both iCloud and my hard drive, than I can drop manually my stuff on dropbox)
Otherwise, I'll keep doing it manually on dropbox only.
Thanks.

From http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4910:
Downloading copies of iWork documents
Sign in to iCloud.com on a Mac or a Windows computer and open the application you used to create the document you want to download (Pages, Numbers, or Keynote).
Select the document and choose the Download option from the Action (Gear) pop-up menu. The document will download to your default downloads location.

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