ties’n things

I’m back … and it was a lovely trip, although it began with bad luck.

The night i left for my trip, i took a bus from Tampico to Zacatecas. An 8-hour drive through the night. I put my bags on the bus and recieved a ticket with a number, which was also applied to my bag. Even though normally nobody can take a bag out of the bus without the matching number, my bag was gone the next morning when i arrived at Zacatecas. Must’ve happened during the night, at one of the 2 stops in other cities. Loosing some clothes and a pair of shoes isn’t something to be really sad about, but loosing all of your photographic equipment, THAT’s a big issue for me! A Nikon D70 body, a Nikon FA body and 3 lenses … all gone!

The bus company didn’t seem to care about it all that much. This usually never happens they said. Well, in that case i don’t understand why they don’t pay a bit more a attention to those very few cases that do occur. They didn’t even ask for my phone number or a way to contact me in case they would have more information! So … i spend the first 3 days of my vacation calling around myself to find out what might’ve happened with my bag.

After 2 days of absolutely no co-operation i went to the juridical department of the tourists office (the owner of the hotel where i was staying told me to do so). And i must say these people acted immediately. They send over a lawyer to the chief of the bus department in Zacatecas to speed things up a little. This lawyer also advised me to press charges so she could put a little more pressure on the bus company with official documents. So, that’s what i did. I spend a whole afternoon with a detective for my statement (all in spanish! :-) and now i can’t do more than wait …

I doubt that i’ll ever see my bag again, so now it’s just about a proper compensation for my loss. Hopefully that’ll be enough to buy myself a new digital and analogue camara. I doubt it though …

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