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[Sheiky]

Great story Doc, sounds familiar. I'm not sure how good an artist you are Lea, but I would have liked a photo of me and my girlfriend in Norway last year.

We had been doing this amazing, but very long and hard trail(hiking) to a very beautiful lighthouse on a hot day(Norway-hot so probably about 22 degrees Celcius). At forehand we had no clue it was going to be like this, so we went unprepared. Just one small bottle of water and a few crisps I think. It turned out to be a 2,5hour walk to and from the lighthouse through tough, wet, slippery and very steep terrain. My girlfriend was trying to make me stop on the way to the lighthouse, but I figured we were already so far to it that I wanted to continue(stubborn and foolish...I know). Once there it was definitely worth all the trouble, but we needed to get back again.
On the way to it my girlfriend was already very exhausted and I carried all the stuff. On the way back this didn't change. Continuesly helping her as well to walk/climb the trail. Again after 2.5hours or so we came back to the car totally exhausted. Putt down all of the stuff including the camera, opened the door of the car and set down. Drank something we had in the car and put on some fresh clothes.
My girlfriend started packing everything in the car again and prepared to drive further. She drove, since I was still very tired. We drove away and a woman was waving, but I didn't think it was for us. After a few minutes I asked my girlfriend if she packed the camera. She said: the bag is in the backseat. I asked again if she putt the camera in the bag, but she said no. She thought it was already in it!

Now here's the part I would have loved to have gotten a picture off:
I had putt the camera on top op the car! And by this time I still couldn't believe it... I began to freak out(understatement) I started listening and I asked again if she had grabbed the camera from the roof of the car. "No!", she said. It was a bendy road so I figured it must have fallen of already when we drove away or somewhere during the ride and I was thinking about all the money I had putt to it. I hadn't heard anything like breaking glass so I figured it could also be still on the roof. My girlfriend very gently slowed down and with my freak-mode on I opened the door and got out. It was still there!!!
The tripod base-plate had scratched the roof a little, but that was all! Both the most unhappy and happy day of my holiday

Thinking backwards, this must have been a killer photo. Two persons in a car, driving around the most beautiful countryside with the most scared faces and a camera on the roof.... To me that would almost be worth losing the camera for


For what it's worth, the Lighthouse from the story:


Skongenes Fyr Lighthouse, Norway by Jan Paalman, on Flickr