tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022158959043622875.post6662135404736337672..comments2024-01-03T00:35:58.752-08:00Comments on Nature Drawing and Journaling Trips : Nature Journaling/Sketching Workshop in Costa RicaIrene Bradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02062009689184090431noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022158959043622875.post-81272458582706810552008-02-24T08:14:00.000-08:002008-02-24T08:14:00.000-08:00Hi Katherine -- Ouch! I'm SO sorry about your sket...Hi Katherine -- Ouch! I'm SO sorry about your sketching chair! Those are treasures indeed!<BR/>Yeah, I'm hopeless, too. About twenty years ago after locking my car keys inside the car for the umpteenth time, I got a carabiner clip (you know, one of those aluminum rings with one spring-loaded side that pushes in) and attached it one of those plastic spiral-coiled key chains. Thus I have fastened my keys to my belt loop (or a pocket or pants edge) ever since. The carabiner/keys get transferred to the next change of clothes along with nail clippers and comb, and when I don't want to carry my purse, my wallet attaches to the carabiner, too, and slips into my pocket. <BR/><BR/>Everything I travel with gets fastened to me. Alas, I have to remember to attach it in the first place! IreneReniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17848379407668464054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022158959043622875.post-35158260730699172882008-02-24T00:57:00.000-08:002008-02-24T00:57:00.000-08:00You're not along Irene. I'm the sort of person wh...You're not along Irene. I'm the sort of person who loses a cinema ticket between paying for it at the front desk and getting to the bit where they check it to let you in to see the film - so I'm a total liability when travelling! <BR/><BR/>It's good to remember that most of us have probably done silly things while travelling. The alternative to your experience can be all the stress experienced and the constant checking to make sure we've STILL got all the things we didn't check into the hold! More than once I've left something sitting somewhere while getting from the check-in to the gate - last time it was my coat!<BR/><BR/>Given my propensity for losing things I now have a little velcro tab pack that hangs from my neck inside my shirt which I use for my passport, tickets, boarding card and some money which reduces my stress levels enormously. I've also found it very useful for storing my camera's memory cards.<BR/><BR/>The worst 'loss' I ever experienced was my partner leaving my beloved globetrotting sketching chair sitting on the baggage trolley at Heathrow - and he didn't even have jet lag as an excuse!!!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022158959043622875.post-41982297255851123762008-02-21T17:32:00.000-08:002008-02-21T17:32:00.000-08:00Mai-liis, what a lovely offer! I would dearly lov...Mai-liis, what a lovely offer! I would dearly love to be able to show photos of the Monte Verde Cloud Forest and the Costa Rican countryside between San José and Monte Verde. Do you have any of those? Other than that, I will probably just go with what I have. <BR/><BR/>If you do have some, and I use them, I would be happy to give you the same credits I have given my students, as on the ones I used already. <BR/><BR/>Also, thank you for your reassuring comment about leaving your camera in a taxicab. While I hate to think someone else lost their camera and pictures, too, it's nice to not be the only one in the world to booboo. <BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>IreneIrene Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02062009689184090431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022158959043622875.post-49987753590249772682008-02-21T17:10:00.000-08:002008-02-21T17:10:00.000-08:00Oh, what a terrible thing to happen to you! But, ...Oh, what a terrible thing to happen to you! But, tell you what, I could share my Costa Rica photos with you!!! Oh, please?<BR/><BR/>By the way, I left my camera in a taxicab in Spain. See, it happens to EVERYBODY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com