Yup that’s what happened to me, someone stole my suitcase out of the Hong Kong airport. Lost the camera too and all the gifts I got my family. It’s the photos I miss the most, my mom didn’t care about the gifts and I managed to stuff a few in mu carry on so it wasn’t a total loss.

Also, twice I went outside with my camera without first loading an SD card. I don’t think I got amazing pictures, but I’ll never know since my camera doesn’t warn you if you don’t have an SD card loaded.

The funny thing is, I didn’t really realize what I had lost until much, much later. I had pictures of China on the precipice of dramatic, historic change. And I was there at a moment where they had disavowed Mao’s Cultural Revolution and there were halting attempts at being more open, attempts that would end less than a year after I was there. Those pictures would be so awesome to see.

Wow my apologies to you, and go fuck yourselves Mother Russia.