I’ve been away for a bit and I wanted to update everyone on what’s been going on in my life and travels.
I started out from our home in Florida in late March intending to head (eventually) to Alaska. I basically traveled across the southern US and spend a week or so in New Mexico visiting an old high school buddy in Truth or Consequences. After that we were to turn north to eventually cross into Canada on our way to Alaska in early June.
Along the way, I learned that my sister may need lung surgery for a spot on her lung. I was keeping track of her progress and it was finally determined that it was indeed a malignant spot and would need to be removed. I spend a few extra days around Yellowstone before I headed east to help support her and her family during her surgery and recovery.
She had a successful surgery and we had gotten her transferred to a rehab facility when I started noticing some strange transactions – first in my investment accounts and then in my banking accounts. Started making phone calls to lock everything down while these instances were further investigated. I don’t want to go into any details here but suffice it to say most of the funds have been recovered and we’re still waiting to hear back from one other entity to recover the remainder.
I decided it was going to be necessary for me to return home to finish discussions in person especially since I’d have to open new accounts. In the middle of all of this we found that three of my Gmail accounts had been hacked even though I followed all of the security protocols including changing passwords regularly. (One thing I DIDN’T follow was to use “complex” passwords; just convoluted but easy for me to remember ones.) It took awhile to get the criminals out of my email accounts even though I had forcibly logged out all attached devices and implemented 2-factor authentication. How they were still able to get in is an on-going mystery but no further attempts to gain access have been attempted for a week now.
Suffice it to say I haven’t been working on the photos I have been taking nor have I made any attempts to update this page. This message is a start to get the process rolling again. I hope to have a link to a site where you can purchase any of my images you may wish to have for yourself. I’ll have more information about that soon.
In the mean time —
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 2023!!!
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