Thank you very much for you prompt reply Chris, much appreciated.
My project in itself is not shield heavy - more like I would like to go with Arduino Go but I am having difficulties finding the components I mentioned for Arduino Go. Maybe I am not looking in the right places or more likely Arduino Go is not there yet. Looking forward to it getting there.
I guess I will go with Arduino Plus 2 for now and see how things progress.
Thanks again.
Tanker