Hard Drive Crashes/Onward Tickets/Immigration Smiles

Nomadico issue #81

Are You Backed up?

I am so dedicated to you dear readers that I am typing this at a chain hotel business center. My laptop suddenly won’t boot up and it is now sitting in a Costa Rican repair shop. I am praying to the computer gods, who are surely artificial beings, that I haven’t got a dead hard drive. I think I’m mostly okay if that happens because I b…