It is with a heavy heart that I write what will be our last blog for this trip. Before I explain why I'd like to start this entry on the same happy note we started our day on.
1 October was Daniel's first official day out of the US Air Force and we travelled from Seattle to Portland excited about what the future was going to hold. We stopped at the Japanese Gardens in Portland at lunchtime to take a walk around and admire the beautiful gardens. When we returned to our car an hour later our day drastically changed.
Some lowlife had smashed our car window and taken camera equipment (thankfully Dan had some with him so they didn't get all of it), computers, hard drives (yes, with a majority of the great photos Dan had taken on our trip) and some personal documents. While the camera and electronic equipment will be covered under insurance, losing photos is heartbreaking.
Nevertheless life goes on and we are both safe, which is all that really matters. We have had a wonderful trip and are lucky to have this blog that has preserved some of the great memories. There is no way that either Dan or I are gong to let the a**holes who stole our stuff ruin this trip and all plans remain as they were originally. I leave for Australia on 10 October and Dan will follow on 4 November (unless someone has a rich uncle who wants to pay for a second trip for us).
However as we have no computers there will be no more blog entries until I have a computer again and can finish it. We will both have very limited access to e-mail but will be checking it when we can and are both contactable via our mobile phones.
Thanks for reading our blog, we hope you found it entertaining and we will let you know when we finish it. For those travelling a word of warning, no matter how safe the neighbourhood looks, what time of day it is and how well you try to conceal your personal belongings sometimes "Sh*t happens!"
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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