Off We Go!

On June 20, 2013, my husband and I are off on a 50 day, cross-Canada motorcycle trip. This blog will share our route, travel tips, photos and highlights of the trip. Photos from this trip will also be the source material for my next painting series, "Canadian Roadtrip" which I hope to complete in 2014. Check out my artwork on Facebook at "Kathy Lauriente-Bonner Art" or visit my website: www.klbart.com
Thanks for visiting!

Monday, 15 July 2013

Technology Disaster!!! ARG!!!

MAJOR BOO goes out of Apple!!!!
Not sure what happened - our ever trusty iPad was in my bag and about 4 days ago, I went to use it and got a screen saying that it was "disabled"... what? Why? It was just sitting in my bag! When we hit St. John's, we found a Best Buy and went and talked to a tech there. The verdict?? It has to be connected to iTunes on the computer it was originally initiated on or else I lose all my data - my apps, my music, my photos, my app content (I have a journal on there...) etc.!!! SERIOUSLY??? That computer is 6000kms away!!  You can reload your purchased apps and music but the rest - so longville.

What a dilemma!!! In the end, we decided to buy a Nexus 7, a smaller (mini) tablet that was very reasonable and is way less "restricted" than Apple products are (as far as downloading music and that kind of thing) but it's been a bit of a learning curve, trying to do what I need to do with it ASAP while we're on the road. It has a camera but it doesn't have the option of the camera pointing away from you which is LAME!!!! So the pics I've taken thus far aren't as good... We're also missing the pictures on the iPad from last week so no post pictures from Newfoundland until we get home and can post some from the big camera. Oh well...

Will have more travel updates up shortly!!

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