Now that I’m back home in chilly Virginia, I’m starting to go through my photos. I’ll go back through the blog and post more of them plus fill in a few details that were left out while I was on the road.
I’m ashamed to report that I did not fill up my one gig camera chip. There were still a few hundred bytes of free space on it when I got home. I lugged around that spare one gig chip all over creation for nothing. Nor did I use up the 20-pack of AA batteries I brought along. Half the pack is still unused.
I have to admit I did get a little weary of photographing everything from time to time and tried simply to enjoy the moment a time or two. However, after observing Steve Silversard, aka The Genuine Tourist, hard at work photographing everything in sight several times over the week I spent with him and Mrs. Sardo, I felt like a slacker. I resolve to do better next time.
I look forward to future trips to Mexico.
The Road to Veracruz 
I think you make a good point. Sometimes you have to stop looking through a viewfinder and record in your brain and your memory the sights, smells, impressions, and emotions that a computer chip and a memory card can’t capture. Maybe you won’t be able to share those things with other people, but maybe that doesn’t matter. They are yours.
That doesn’t mean I’m not looking forward to see the ones you recorded on your memory card that we haven’t yet seen!
I was only about a quarter serious. I especially wrote the line about lugging around that spare memory chip to make Steve laugh.
We had many great moments that weren’t photographed, but we usually photographed something connected so that we could remember it later. Like the night I was dancing in the street to a reggae tune with a guy who was already three sheets to the wind.
Finally getting around to reading and viewing your blog. Very nice Marie.
Good Morning Marie and those listening in,
In the four months we traveled Mexico, I took about 6,000 photos and 500 short video clips. When I backed everything up on an external hard drive, it took almost 12 gigs, but I “blame” that on having copies of all of Robert Cox’s photos (Tlaxcala Tourism Yahoo Group) and yours Marie!
Yes, at times a stopped taking photos to just enjoy the moment, and then towards the end my camera was broken and I was in withdrawal until we bought a new one a few days later (and resumed the addiction). I am waiting for my broken one to be returned from cannon where it is under going an UNREIMBURSED repair for a recall problem. They say they won’t do it free because of scratches on the camera, scratches that happened two years ago in Greece!
Ok, enough ranting. We enjoyed our time with you very much and TWO cameras on a subject is “double the fun” 🙂
We hope to return to Mexico for two months this fall and will advise you of our dates and location, but it will probably be the state of Tlaxcala for the time being.
Silversard, AKA, Genuine Tourist