Around the World in One Camera

I think the camera is good luck charm.

As was on my way to the post office, I noticed I didn’t have enough change with me, just a big bill. I told the “cobrador” on the bus, and he let me pay 70 cents instead of the full fare!

Then, at the post office, they tell me I need a copy of my DNI (the peruvian ID document), I went to the copy place, again with just my big bill, and the guy let me have the photocopy for free! Granted, it was only 20 cents, but sometimes its just the little things like those that make it a good day.

Once back, the mailman didn’t even make me open the box, and he wrapped it all up in tape “in case it rains, so the ink wont smudge off”. I’ve wrapped the box in brown paper, and stuck the original “don not x ray” on it.

It should be arriving in Argentina in 7 or 8 working days.

Suerte Gabriel!

yesterday was beautiful sunny day here in Lima, so I called my friend Jimena (for moral support) and we went for a walk around my neighberhood. after a bit of walking, I found the perfect spot, and in just a second, it was all over. It was like everything had come together at exactly the right moment and I was there to capture it.

now I’m on my way to the post office to send our hero off to Gabriel. I’ve kept the original box, as it looks like its holding up pretty well. I’ll update tomorrow telling everyone how it went at SERPOST, the peruvian post office…

It’s finally here!

I’ll put up pictures soon, so we can all see how the box is doing. I’m hoping to get the picture tomorrow, as we are having one of those dreary Lima days and the sun seems to have taken a vacation.

Gabriel, pasame un correo con tu dirección, para poder mandar la camarita el miercoles!

I’m pretty sure you’re still using the original box. Let’s try to keep it all the way around the globe. What do you think about this new idea? If anyone decides that the time for a new one has come please let me know.

I just cameback from the Mexpost, a national shipping company that has a link to the Mexican Post Office, but made with private assets so it will take less time than regular ‘Certified Mail’, ok?

Traveler left today Veracruz, Mexico heading to Lima, Perú and is about to get there in some 7 or 9 days (as i was told)

You know? I can’t deny how jealus I am out littke friend is going to travel to 32 countries!! Can you believe it? I’ve only been to 12!! It’s a pity to be so poor!!
The package is secure in this moment because in order not to be opened anymore I had to deliver the package to the office and show the inside (lucky me I wasn’t sendin my funny underwear!! lol ).

I wasn’t supposed to send the package over cus I was waiting for the Sheriff to show me green light. Maybe it was wrong of me sending the package not having had his authorization before doing it but i thought it was a bit stupid wasting more time and I couldn’t wait anymore so i eventually sent it to our friend Andrea Harman… (Wojtek, i didn’t mean to disobey the rules, but i had to do it.. I know you understand it my friend!!) Luckyly, when i cameback home i realized the Sheriff had just told me it was ok to send it there.. so everything’s back on track and we didn’t lose another day (That’s a lot)

Well, my friends, it’s been a pleasure to have had the opportunity to do something different with an oustanding camera and a wonderful Team, I only wish that my work can make someone’s life a little bit happier, at least for a moment…

My work isn’t finished yet,I wil still be around over here giving you support and making comments… and as I once said:

‘Never forget we are a team…’

Thank you all my friends for your support, thank you for the good comments, and if any bad, thank you also for them. Thank you Wojtek for having trusted in me… and don’t worry!! Someday we’ll do that union station assignment!!

omar romeo

Greetings from Mexico, the land of pretty girls and horrible guys…(including me)

He arrived safe… survived to a ship wreck in the middle of the ocean when someone on the boat screamed: ‘Run to the safe boats!! Children and ladies first…. oh! film cameras too!’.

When in Mexico clearing customs, he was forced to show a passport, but when he tried to explain he was travelling with a diplomatic passport (eventually lost in a wreckage), he was then arrested and put into jail until someone payed the bail:

- Hey! …I’m only a toy Camera!!! What´s the matter with you guys?

Behind the bars he met Leica…a strange lady camera coming from Germany but supposedly put into detention cus somehow, when she was claiming to be german, someone from migration assumed she had something to do with that thing called ‘War Crimes’…. Oh my God!!

And later he met Holga, a young camera coming from China who was placed behind the bars because someone in the border of México once read she was supposed to have a plastic lens, but this one had a lens made of glass…Holly shit!!

So here they are, three cameras from three different worlds, all of them sharing the same bath in a hot, stinky and dirty hangar in the middle hundreds of cactus and people wearing palm hats.

All of a sudden, a phone rings and our little friend is released. No one knows who did that phone call, our traveler friend only recalls he was placed in another box and next thing he knows is looking to a friendly face in a place with all facilities…
The man from the Mail told me:

- It’s ok, dude, just let him rest for a while…

I replied:

- Let him rest for a While?????
Now he´s getting drunk with my USD 45.00 Don Julio Reposado Tequila. But what can I do? That’s the way we all mexicans treat foreigners… Not to worry! Tomorrow morning will be a bright day for a hunting,

omar romeo,
Greetings from México, the land of one less tequila bottle.