Contact Info

Before I forget, here are my email addresses.  Apparently I can access my telus account (elorenz9@telus.net) from anywhere in the world by using mail2web.com.

I've also created another email address for myself with google, so here is my backup address should the telus address not work:  elorenz57@gmail.com

Travel stuff is still strewn all over the living room floor.  This includes the following technology:

•  a kobo ereader onto which I've downloaded 114 free books and 3 paid for books and still need to try to sign out an ebook from the Vancouver Island Regional Library;
• an iPod touch to be used in lieu of a computer.  Ask me anything...like how to power surge the iPod, or how to download my address book, music and selected files from my computer.  Ask Max how ecstatic he is to finally own a piece of up-to-date technology (this is the only 12 year old boy in all of North America who has never owned a video game; a result of having rustic parents.);
• a portable, small external hard drive to be used to back up photos and videos;
• a new video camera for which I've only had time to charge up the battery;
• my digital camera which I will never learn to use properly because it has too many gizmos on it so I'll keep it on automatic;
• countless extra batteries and memory cards and cords and adaptors and waterproof cases;
• an African cell phone for which I'll buy SIM cards in the countries we wander through, and;
• Max's hearing aid, batteries, case.

The low tech stuff includes:

• 5 guide books, 3 books to be given as gifts, 3 books on African wildlife, 1 book about Ugandan history, and 1 memoir about being a safari guide in Botswana;
• malaria pills, dehydration tablets, painkillers, antihistamines, antibiotics, sun screen, vitamins;
• sheet sleeping bags, hats, long sleeved shirts to keep out the sun, clothing which is not blue or black (colours loved by tsetse flies and Arctic blackflies);
• 2 journals in which to WRITE BY HAND (what a concept) for Max (alternating French and English) and myself (I'll write in whatever language I feel like);
• duotang with math homework for Max (some burdens must simply be borne);
• harmonica, recorder;
• clothing, sandals, flipflops, runners, sunglasses, prescription glasses, and;
• passports, plane ticket info, medical/travel insurance, credit cards.

This list is making me tired and I haven't even tried to carry it yet.  

Tomorrow is Hallowe'en.  Max is being cheery and dressing like an assassin.  This costume involves a fedora, suit jacket and tie, dress pants and shoes, 3 inch silver nails made using origami, a knife and leather holder he made in Scouts last year, and a white mask with a long nose which we purchased in Venice 6 years ago.

Happy trick or treating!