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Sep. 21st, 2017 09:40 pmI am back early from my trip. I got a stomach bug. I tried to tough it out, hoping that it would only be a 24 hour thing, but it wasn't. I drove home in about twice as long as it should have taken because I kept stopping to rest. I made it, though at a point I almost just got a room for the night. I come from a family that proudly drives while too sick, exhausted, old or drunk to drive safely and I make a point of not doing that. I will not drive if I am not fit to.
While good things happened and I will post pictures when I can, right now I am going to sit here in a tired, sick bruised lump.
The first day I was hiking I took a bad fall and broke my main camera. It's not the end of the world as I have two more camera bodies that use the same lens and accessory ecosystem, but that Pen 5 was my main and preferred camera. I also hurt my knee, so even before I got sick I scaled way back on what I was doing.
I had an OMD camera body with me, so I still took shots but I am less sure of what the results will be like. I really, really prefer Pen to OMD. My only other Pen body is the original one and is very old.
So, other than sick, injured, having my fave camera break and winding up in some guy's basement it was great.
Okay, the basement story and then bed. I will post better travelogs later. I booked some Air BnBs for this trip and they were amazing. In the areas where I was traveling, hotels and motels are scarce. The night my planned Air BnB host cancelled on me, I booked a traditional B&B through hotels.com. My thinking was that it would be nice to stay some place more usual in case the other places were awkward and stressful. The room turned out to be in a finished basement of this really weird guy. Guest parking was a stupid distance away. Everything about the place was off, unfriendly and creepy. I nearly ditched but this was one of the nights I was on an island and it was past the last ferry.
And now, bedtime.
While good things happened and I will post pictures when I can, right now I am going to sit here in a tired, sick bruised lump.
The first day I was hiking I took a bad fall and broke my main camera. It's not the end of the world as I have two more camera bodies that use the same lens and accessory ecosystem, but that Pen 5 was my main and preferred camera. I also hurt my knee, so even before I got sick I scaled way back on what I was doing.
I had an OMD camera body with me, so I still took shots but I am less sure of what the results will be like. I really, really prefer Pen to OMD. My only other Pen body is the original one and is very old.
So, other than sick, injured, having my fave camera break and winding up in some guy's basement it was great.
Okay, the basement story and then bed. I will post better travelogs later. I booked some Air BnBs for this trip and they were amazing. In the areas where I was traveling, hotels and motels are scarce. The night my planned Air BnB host cancelled on me, I booked a traditional B&B through hotels.com. My thinking was that it would be nice to stay some place more usual in case the other places were awkward and stressful. The room turned out to be in a finished basement of this really weird guy. Guest parking was a stupid distance away. Everything about the place was off, unfriendly and creepy. I nearly ditched but this was one of the nights I was on an island and it was past the last ferry.
And now, bedtime.
