A bit of a disaster happened to me in transit between San Francisco and Vancouver. I lost my camera - complete with memory cards. The camera was ageing, extremely battered and not hugely expensive to start with, so the financial loss isn't so much of an issue. But, while I have been uploading my good photos to the Internet along the way, I hadn't uploaded photos for about two and a half weeks before the loss. So all my photos from New Zealand and California are lost.
I'd got to San Francisco Airport late, was almost denied boarding, and I was very short on sleep, so in a less-than-together state my first instinct was that I'd allowed the camera to fall out of my shoulder bag, most likely on the plane. However, calls to Air Canada and to the airport failed to turn anything up. On further reflection talking to my friend Troy in Vancouver, I reckon that even in a diminished state it wouldn't really be like me for this to have happened. So I concluded that it's most likely to have been lifted out of my shoulder bag somewhere while it was on my shoulder. I said to Troy that I wouldn't think of myself as inattentive enough to let this happen - but he pointed out to me that airport thieves do exactly this kind of thing all the time, targeting flustered looking people etc. They're good at their job and they just don't get caught in the act.
I'm trying to be phlegmatic about the loss, because you have to expect things to go wrong while travelling, and it's only 2½ weeks of photos lost out of a 21-week trip. But you can take one thing for sure - I'm not going to leave my camera in the top of my shoulder bag ever again!!
Attention non-Facebookers only. On the subject of photos, I'm aware that there is a small number of readers on Blogger who won't have had access to any of my photos on Facebook. While in the early days of this blog my intention was to embed some of the best photos in the blog itself, I soon abandoned this idea on grounds of available time (although I might go back and do it at the end of the trip, but then I might not). So instead, a little belatedly, here are links to the Facebook photo albums thus far which you don't need to be a member of Facebook to be able to access:
Northern Thailand - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2376380&id=61207375&l=4de0f5a5cf
Cameron Highlands - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2377962&id=61207375&l=5179141f45
Melbourne - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2380704&id=61207375&l=67bf6302ab I'll provide the rest of the links as I go through.
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