Yesterday was another one of those bad travel days. Not every day is good at home, so it stands to reason that not every day will be good on the road.
Yesterday was bad because our SLR camera was stolen and I lost my sunglasses. Double whammy.
When we returned back to our room last night, I realized I no longer had my sunglasses. I suspect I left them sitting on the table where we had dinner earlier in the evening. The sunglasses were only $20 from Marshalls, but considering I use them every single day, I’ll be missing those a lot.
Even worse is the stolen camera. We are in Lisbon, Portugal. Lisbon is full of quaint trolleys, and the 28E takes you up and down Lisbon’s hills through its different neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the trolleys are also hotbeds for petty crime. One moment our camera was between us on the seat, and the next, after we stood up, it was gone. Some advise not to take fancy cameras on the road for this reason, but we always figured that if you are not going to use a fancy camera when you are travelling the world, when would you use it? Out of all the items we carry with us, the camera was by far the most expensive. And we lost more than the camera: we lost the zoom lens we upgraded, the Crumpler camera bag we purchased for the trip, the green polka-dotted camera strap from Etsy.com, the 8 gig memory card, and the two filters we never quite figure out how to use. And our room keys.
Luckily, we only lost about a day’s worth of photos because I try to upload our pictures to our camera every day or so. We are trying not to get too upset about it, but I can’t help but feel that I lost a limb, as we have been carrying the camera around everywhere. We have insurance, so hopefully it will cover the loss. And we have another camera, a little point and shoot, so it is not like we will be pictureless. But still. Not a good travel day, for sure.