Sep 02 2004
Count down: 2 days to go. Nikon refunded
We confirmed most of the hotel/apartment reservations.
Many of those would charge for a day or two’s fare but required us to bring the rest in cash. Or we have to pay a hefty “processing fee” for using credit card.
Now we are working on organizing the information we have to bring with ourselves:
Embassy phone numbers, document IDs, important phone numbers, etc.
Calendar, train schedules, all the hotel/apartment confirmations.
Like everything else today, travel is as much about information as physical movements.
Pretty stressful reading tour books. My assignment is Rome and Song’s Florence. Just too many places to see and too much history to stuff into my brain.
We’ve thought about remembering most of the tour book highlights and just bringing some copies of pages for reminder. Now it seems we have to bring 3, 4 books, and keep reading them along the way. One draw back from not going with a Tour.
Finally Ritz said the returned D100 has been accepted and fully refunded. I have to say Ritz (www.ritzcamera.com) is pretty decent. Except I suspect the D100 I got was already a returned one, and I was talking to an all Indian crew while on the phone. Never the less, they didn’t take any cut out of my return.
We are trying to build a website, now at the 11th hour. So we can upload images on the road. Imagestation from Sony may be another option if this website thing doesn’t work.