Dave and Jen For Oxfam

Digital cameras and holidays. There is a valid train of thought about people going on holidays with their little digital cameras and spending more time taking photos then soaking in the experience. There is plenty i agree with in that regards, and one only needs to sit in any crumbling temple watching people get frustrated with each other as they jostle to take, largely, terrible photos of wonderful things, before bustling back on to a tour bus. The logic of this argument gets stronger when you consider the photo their tiny point and shoot camera attempted to take of a distant temple, at sunset, with their tiny flash on is all but throw-away. So why did we take 3 cameras with us? 

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To make the remaining three weeks sound like a longer amount of time to fundraise, we can think of it in terms of 504 hours or 30240 minutes. To make it sound like a shorter amount of time until we hit the bikes in Ho Chi Min, we can think of it as 21 days. One we are counting off as slowly as possible and one we are striking off the calendar with a daily increase in excitement. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise in terms of which is which, but we are still surprised and shocked how quickly the last few weeks and months have gone by, and how quick the next few will follow suit. Three weeks left, and we still need your support!

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