ALTERNATE TITLE: A Freakin' Sweet Steak Dinner!
As those of you who have held a professional camera know, they're big and heavy. I've been getting tired of lugging this Nikon D3 around, so I got rid of it, in lieu of my Nikon D40x, a much smaller, lighter camera. Also, as those of you who know me are aware, I am a person of extremes. In this case, that means I'm going to go really light, not just a bit lighter. I got rid of more than just my Nikon D3 body. Here's the complete list of items I disposed of in search of a lighter, leaner approach to travel:
- Nikon D3 DSLR body
- Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 lens
- Nikon SB-800 flash
- iPod Nano (3rd generation)
- Koss PortaPro headphones
- Three lens filters (neutral density, grad ND, polarizing)
- MicroTrack II digital audio recorder
- Several Spanish books (grammar, verbs, dictionary, etc.)
- 2 VISA cards
- Passport
- Driver's license
- Insurance papers
- Vaccination papers
- Photocopy of passport (in case passport gets stolen)
- Extra passport photos (in case passport gets stolen)
- $300 USD
- 400 Argentine pesos (over $130 USD)
- Pen and paper
- Earplugs
- Alarm clock
- Map of Buenos Aires
- Map of South America
- 3.5" USB hard drive containing approximately 11,000 photos—that's a lot of photos to be carrying around—my pack is way lighter now.
To top it all off, I couldn't see carrying my small backpack with me when I won't be carrying its contents, too, so I just offloaded the whole kit 'n' caboodle. It's good to be free of all that crap.
Someone's having one sweet steak dinner tonight! (Hint: It ain't me—I've got about $4.25 to my name, in pesos. That's about a buck forty-two USD.)
No comments:
Post a Comment