Jeanine and I leave for the Azores Islands this evening. A four-hour, overnight flight will have us in Ponta Delgado on Sao Miguel by early morning. Maya will be staying with friends for two days before she heads to Paris for a little longer than a week. Clothes for 7 days, two of three cameras, an iPad, and a tripod made a tight squeeze into/onto my 28L backpack. Even though we will be staying in a hotel, I have grown accustomed to traveling with a backpack. We plan to do a lot of hiking so it will come in handy for that as well. Even as I write this entry I am struggling with a deep desire to bring along a forth camera. Sometimes I envy those who just pull out their smartphones for a perfectly fine photo. That said, it occurs to me that I will have my iPhone with me as well, thereby incrementing all prior camera totals by one. In all likelihood, I will not be updating the blog until Wednesday of next week when we return.