The GCW Tour, Spain & Morocco: Oops!

My technical skills aren't what they should be, but I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing when your laptop, instead of giving the Windows chime and coming up all blue and graphical, stays silent and comes up with white text on a black field that reads, "Operating System not found." 

I guess I should've been more worried by the hundreds of Windows updates it was applying to itself each night (not that I would've known how to disable them). Oops!

In any case, this will have two immediate impacts on my blog: 

First, no more photos until I return to America. Without the laptop, I can't get the pictures off my camera to post to the blog, so for the remainder of the trip I'm limited to text. I'll mark any post that was intended to have pictures as a "draft" and then pull that designation once I get the pictures added for anyone who wants to either wait for the pictures or come back and reread the post with its visual enhancements. 

Second, with the loss of my laptop I've lost my keyboard so I'm now limited to one finger pecking on my iPad. This will limit the number of words I can tolerate entering which, in retrospect, may be a good thing. In any case, expect shorter posts. 

Apologies to everyone who was hoping to follow along, but that's the good and the bad with technology: while it enables things like this blog, it's also a lot more fragile than a pen and a postcard. 

And no, I'm not sending anyone a postcard.