Mon 18/08/08 16:26
When I was in Porales, NM I went scuba diving with Greg at Balmoreah, TX. I wrote all about it in a post here, but I didn’t have the pictures at the time of the writing, well Greg just sent them to me. I have to admit, I look dashing in all the gear. :) I wish.
Sun 17/08/08 23:50
I’m starting to convert some of the video that I managed to salvage from my camera. The best way to describe what happened is that the camera stopped working in Moscow, but it didn’t give any indication that there was a problem. I remember one time trying to view one the things that I taped and it wouldn’t come up on the screen, it kept saying “creating thumbnails.” That’s what it’s doing right now, but it never creates them. It looks like for now that everything before Moscow is okay, and everything afterwards isn’t.
I’ve been working at getting the info for the trip done. I’ve still got some problems with the video camera, see last post, but in the meantime I’ve been uploading all the images that I took. The good, the bad, the out of focus, tilted, poor composition, and other imperfections are there for everyone to see. The link is http://s517.photobucket.com/albums/u332/ken_curtis/
Remember I’m still in the process of putting everything online, so although most images are up now, I still have to label them… if I actually decide to do that, and then add the video that I took with my regular camera (not my video camera).
Fri 15/08/08 00:42
Okay, so I’m back in Dubai. That doesn’t mean that I have to stop having fun right? That’s at least what I told myself, so I took off for a walk at about 7 this morning. I couldn’t sleep last night so I got up and started transfering my video camera stuff to my computer. At about 7 I decided to go for a walk. When I stepped outside I was hit by a heat that I didn’t expect. I’ve taken a snapshot of the current temperature at 930, 2 hours later.
It happened like I knew it had to one of these days… I’m back in Dubai. :(
The plane ride was uneventful and except for the 6 hour layover in Atlanta the flight was pretty good. In fact I don’t think I can complain about anything, except it was a reminder that the best time I’ve ever had in my life was coming to an end. I want to write more when I’ve had a good nights rest and am able to better put my experiences into context. For now, I wanted to let those of you that have been following my progress know that I’m home and safe.
Ken
Wed 13/08/08 11:00
Right now I”m sitting in the airport and trying to use my computer but the screen is really dark…so dark that I can’t read what I’m writing. I don’t think I’ll be able to check my email until I get back to dubai in about two days.
sorry if you sent an email, but I hope that you understand…. I can’t see anything on the screen.
Ken
PS: I’m writing this part a few days later now that I’m home. When I was going through security at Albuquerque’s airport I saw a girl that looked just like Karen, a ex-girlfriend. It was kind of funny looking back at the situation now, but at the time my heart dropped down into my stomach and the “fight or flight” mechanism kicked in. I timed the security check so I was putting my shoes back on when she was collecting her belongings and went up and asked her if her name was Karen. I could see when I was close to her that it wasn’t her, but she could really have been Karen’s twin… and she said that she wasn’t. I had a butterflies for about 20 minutes after I asked her.
