{"id":163,"date":"2007-01-18T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-01-18T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T14:34:21","slug":"pre-trip-planning-gear-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Trip Planning: Gear &#038; Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/360974840\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/160\/360974840_d517062955.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[1] As a gift to myself for working like a dog, completing my grad school applications, and surviving the weather here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth College<\/a>, I bought myself that Nikon I had been <a href=\"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=148\" target=\"_blank\">lusting after<\/a>. I agonize over these types of expenditures and excuse me while I go puke thinking about my credit card bill. Oh, and did I mention that I&#8217;m getting my next to last paycheck today? Double puke!<\/div>\n<p>Enough with the puking already. This blog is so classy!<\/p>\n<p>[2] I decided on the D50 over the D80 after\u00c2\u00a0listening to some photographers whose work I like. The D80 is $600 more than the D50 and that doesn&#8217;t include anything except the &#8220;body&#8221; of the camera. I also had a great offer for a 55-200mm lens, but it was another $700 and I was l like wait, last.paycheck.for.months and Blindian\u00c2\u00a0called and\u00c2\u00a0talked me off the $700 cliff. I went with the baby lens and used a very generous gift certificate that I received for Christmas. I am very happy. But still slightly puketastic.<\/p>\n<p>[3] It has warmed up to 2 degrees here in New Hampshire-its a heatwave!<\/p>\n<p>[4] Come check us out over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/bloggers\/dia-draper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gadling.com<\/a> for more hilarious travel news.<\/p>\n<p>T-minus: 11 days and counting to <a href=\"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/www.semesteratsea.com\" target=\"_blank\">Semester at Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First stop: Ft. Lauderdale, Fl to Nassau, Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [1] As a gift to myself for working like a dog, completing my grad school applications, and surviving the weather here at Dartmouth College, I bought myself that Nikon I had been lusting after. I agonize over these types of expenditures and excuse me while I go puke thinking about my credit card bill. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pre-Trip Planning: Gear &#038; Gadgets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-trip-planning","category-semestersea","category-travel","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}