4.09.2008

new frontiers

it's been awhile since i've added anything on here, which is pretty much everybody's fault but my own. anyways, i'm back in california now, spending plenty of quality time with those i missed most: my bed and my toilet.

my trip just doesn't seem complete without sharing written accounts of all that happened after flying outta laos. that being said, i'm gonna do my best to add what i can to the site. i have over 2,000 pictures to go through, not to mention 6 weeks of neglected mail, weeds, laundry and bill collectors to tend to.

cambodia was the next destination for me, but before i cover that fantastic nightmare of a country, i thought i'd share a photo of one of the more memorable parts of my trip: crossing the equator. sure, for most people, this is no big deal. but, shutterbug that i am, i managed to snap a photo of the rare and elusive line that separates our hemispheres.

behold:

the equator almost never shows up on camera. in fact, most "images" of it are actually illustrations on maps and globes. it sometimes appears as a dotted line, but in rare cases, such as the one above, it can be solid. so how did i manage to photograph such a hard-to-spot line in the middle of the ocean? maybe i was lucky, maybe i have a sharp eye, or maybe i just tweaked the image around on microsoft paint. who's to say?

for now, i'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for the even more elusive, oceanic land of rand mcnally.

-sg