D-Day 2012

Departure day that is... a few more hours and we will be catching the big bird. Currently watching idiots on Discovery Channel making driving to the south pole look a lot more difficult than it probably is... or was it the north pole?

Anyway I think the bags are all packed, my travel companion has been working on her effort for three or four days now, mine took half an hour. As usual, probably have way too much stuff but this trip is made complicated by actually having to pack some tidy clothes/shoes to look respectable sometimes.

Special thanks to Canon for making this trip even more expensive than it already was, and for not calling when they said they would, and for taking twice as long to do anything as they said they would... nice cameras, shame about the service! A couple of small repairs on my poor tired baby and the $ were 25% of the way to a new camera. But can't go anywhere without it...

Feel free to post comments I might need contact with the real world to maintain sanity... You know what I mean!!

Obscure music reference - just finished listening to Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 'Sunday At Devil Dirt', great album and one of several with the sweet-voiced Campbell (of the great Belle & Sebastian) and the growling baritone of Lanegan (ex Screaming Trees and sometimes Queens of the Stone Age')... nice folksy/bluesy/traditional feel to it, they have been referred to as "Beauty and the Beast"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWKsizCmfc&feature=related