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Thursday, February 15th, 2007



Sarah and horse

Originally uploaded by mebrown06.

After several weeks of worry and unproductive Spanish conversations with photo shop workers, we have discovered the root of our camera problem: the USB thingy that we put the memory card in to transfer the pictures onto the computer. It’s not the camera (though it’s like 5 years old and has only 2 mega pixles) and it’s not the memory chip. Which means you can now enjoy all the pictures we’ve been enjoying on our camera’s tiny little screen. Click on the picture for an obscene number of new pics. Enjoy.

Photo A Go Go

Thursday, February 8th, 2007



Cathedral and Cross

Originally uploaded by mebrown06.

Come to Vilcabamba for a day, and stay for three. (Or, like the aforementioned Canadian, come for a week, stay for over a month, and relentlessly judge people). We’ve played our hearts out these past few days: life-sized chess, ping pong, pool, swimming pool games like “handstands” and “swim-through-my-legs” and “guess-what-I’m-saying-underwater.” It’s been great. We’re gearing up for a nightbus to Piura, Peru, leaving at 10:30. We hope to make it to Chiclayo tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, you can click on the picture to view recently uploaded photos. Unfortunately, we’ve run into quite a lot of camera trouble lately: 1) the screen of the new camera we bought for our trip cracked and rendered the camera nearly useless 2) the old camera we brought as a backup is very persnickety. Currently, the new memory chip that we bought to replace the 16 MB chip is not allowing us to put pictures up online. We can take photos just fine and see the photos on the camera, but for some reason when we use our USB camera chip plug in thing, we can’t put the photos onto the computer. Anybody have any advice? I’m thinking that the photos are stored on the chip and there must be a way to get them off, but have no idea what that way might be. All this to say, there are about 200 odd pictures that we can see and you can’t. Ha.

No really, all advice appreciated. We wouldn’t want these pictures to be resigned to a horrible limbo in which they exist only on a 2×4 inch screen. They need to have the chance to live a full, happy life.

-Megan (with help from Sarah)

Size Matters

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Isla Mujeres 001
Originally uploaded by skavanagh.
I've ... [Continue reading this entry]

O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!!!

Sunday, October 15th, 2006
We have spent three blissfully busy days in Tulsa, OK. The wind has, indeed, swept down the plain. Several times. Mostly, the time was spent visiting family, taking care of travel business, and eating wonderful home-cooked meals, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Something horrible has happened

Monday, September 25th, 2006
As you may or may not have noticed, about half of our posts disappeared the other day. It happened to other people we know who have bootsnall blogs as well. Oh Sad. We're now wondering whether we should go ... [Continue reading this entry]

Naps: In Memorium

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
There are many ways to make money for travel. When you're a teacher and summer camp director, I think your best choice is looking after other people's kids. In fact, this is what I'm doing right now, at ... [Continue reading this entry]

WMDs, Executions, and a good place to buy “Annapolis” before it’s out on DVD

Saturday, August 12th, 2006
I didn't buy anything at the travel bookstore today. I did, however, stay there long enough to learn a few things: 1) I'm glad we're not going to Panama, because apparently the United States government buried chemical weapons ... [Continue reading this entry]

A Fond Goodbye to the Adrenaline Pumping Through My Veins

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
I spent last night reading my Lonely Planet Central America Guidebook and getting happy. I've been a gigantic ball of stress for the past week or so, thinking about all of the stuff that has to get done before ... [Continue reading this entry]

The Capsule that Cares: Musings on Immunization

Monday, August 7th, 2006
At the moment, I am looking at a pamphlet entitled "Vaccine in a Capsule." On the cover of said pamphlet, there is a capsule. The capsule is sitting on top of a refrigerator with its legs, yes, its ... [Continue reading this entry]

If only.

Monday, August 7th, 2006
I am printing gobs and gobs of documents so that I can produce them to the defense before an expert gives her deposition. First, however, I will copy them with a fancy copy-setting that adds little numbers to the ... [Continue reading this entry]