Update: Trip Terminated
Update: Trip Terminated
Well, I managed to spend two weeks in Hawaii and three weeks in the Philippines before being forced to return to the US for medical reasons.
I did everything I wanted to do in Hawaii and nothing I wanted to do in the Philippines. In fact, I did not take one photo in three weeks in the Philippines so let me explain.
About two days after arriving in Manila, Luzon was dead center for one of the largest typhoons in the last fifty years so many roads were washed out. Between the rain, I went out for a massage and the masseuse cracked a rib which I injured last summer. And at about the same time I started to come down with what I hope is influenza.
Now the cough is still going on. This year I have traveled to Guatemala in April and rode my motorcycle to Alaska. Upon returning home from each of these trips, I have had some kind of cough which needed treatment with antibiotics. So since the cough has not yet gone away, I am getting a CT scan next week.
Hopefully, it is just the remnants of influenza. My daughter and I had planned on meeting in Taiwan for the first two weeks of the new year. I am still planning on that trip so I will have to fly across the Pacific again.
As far as equipment even though I did not take any photos in the Philippines I found myself missing a film camera. So in January it looks like my M9 will be joined by an M2. The 35f2.8 C Biogon and 90f2.8 Tele Elmarit M will be joined by a brand new 50f2.8 Elmar M purchased today from Classic Connection. I am beginning to feel I can easily live with 35/50/90. And am thinking of selling the 15, 21 and 35f1.2.
I will update when I figure out what is going on medically. It sucks being sick.
