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Having escaped form both alcatraz and the shitehold that is LA, I boarded a 747 and zipped across the pacific.

This hostel has skype, vacilities, so if anyone wats a call, say so.

LA airport is also a dump BTW, a few duty free shops selling the usual suspects, and one or 2 food places, many newspaper shops, but edinburgh’s shopping is streets ahead. The fact they are in the middle of major refurb work doesn’t help things either.

I got completelly turned around over timezones and things, added to that the air hostesses woke us up at 4:30 local time to give us a breakfast. when i say turned around, I don’t mean jetlag, I mean really confused.

I got some post cards sorted out in the US, then forgot to post the buggers, so i have 2 postcards with us stamps on them, in NZ. I’m tempted to post them in order to see a confused looking postman.

America was certainly worth doing. If I do it again, there will be a longer amtrak session, likelly a 30 day pass, and i will be organising ot meet people on it, not at thier place.

In other news I’ve just found that myblog doesn’t render properly in IE6, which is slightly amusing.

– only photgraphy giberish to follow–
I found a load a small photography shops in sanfran, and managed to score a genuine Kenko 2x TC (wibbly cammera bit) for about half the price it should have been. I was taken a back when I said “I’ll think about it” and he started haggling with me, I wasn’t really trying very hard as I really niether needed it nor perticularly wanted it. I paid just over 50 quid for it.

I found some real junk with sales pitch in other places, wide angle adaptors — “what is vignetting? … oh yes of course you get the fish eye effect. To get rid of that all you have to do is zoom in a little. he tried ot add an 82mm uv filter for free too, and you know what that does on a “10mm” lens. I didn’t even check for CA, but I imagine it would have been dire. the distortion certainly was.

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