I rented a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens for the weekend from KSP (good people) in Palo Alto. I gotta say, this is a fun lens to shoot with, and I’ll probably end up looking for a used one. I was showing my mom the shots I took of rooms around the house and she was like “so that’s how real estate agents make rooms look huge!”
This is a shot of the guidebooks I’ve checked out and are currently sitting on my desk. Collectively, they should more or less cover where I plan to be for the first quarter for 2009 (except for the Seattle and Pacific Northwest guides; I checked those out out of curiosity). Angkor Wat and the Kremlin are pretty much asking to be shot with this lens.
Speaking of which, I still have a laundry list of things to deal with before I get on a plane anywhere—visa applications, travel insurance, itinerary-making, and of course, packing. As awesome as hopping on a plane without any of this red tape sounds, the reality of bureaucracy and immigration doesn’t exactly faciliate this spontaneity. Nothing kills the romanticism of vagabonding like comparing insurance plans to see which one pays out more when you lose an eye/leg/arm (or both, or any combination of the above!), or when your dead body needs to be repatriated.
