As you know, I've been traveling overseas lately, first to Greece, then to India and now I'm in Thailand. When I'm on the road in the U.S., cell phones have made it easy to stay in touch with my office, friends and family. Leaving the country, though, had made that a lot more challenging.

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I'm on the road still, having gone to India from Greece. Flew into Delhi early (very, very early) Wednesday morning, where I'm here to lead two days of digital workflow training for some members of the Associated Press photo staff in Asia. The rest of Wednesday was a free day, though, so I wanted to get out for some fresh air and see some of Delhi.

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Sometimes you get amazingly lucky, and then sometimes you don't. Kevin Gilbert and I just finished leading a photo trek of Greece for American Photo. We had a lot of fun with a great group of people, and everyone headed home with some new photos and new ideas for their photography. We started the trip in Athens, with an afternoon tour of the town and the Acropolis, who's most famous feature is the Parthenon, visible from much of Athens.

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It never ceases to amaze me how pervasive American culture is. We spent four hours driving and walking into the bush of Tanzania in 2006 to find a remote tribe of bushmen and found one of them wearing a Nike t-shirt. Then two days ago, walking through Aio, a small town on the tip of Santorini, a Greek island, I came across this car coated in dust, with messages written across the windshield. And once again I'm reminded of the saying - you either love or hate the Yankees, wherever you are.

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I'm in Greece leading a photo trek for American Photo. We've had a great time so far, starting in Athens and then going on to the island of Mykonos. After three days here, today we take the ferry to Santorini. We've made a lot of good photos, but perhaps as important, we've had fun and time to relax as well.

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Last week I was doing a bit of packing, as I was preparing to head to Greece to lead a photo trek for American Photo (www.mentorseries.com), where I am now. Yes, I know, tough life. I do a lot of travel, and am always looking for new ways to cut down on the amount of stuff I have to drag along. That's become even more important now that we take computers, hard drives and chargers with us.

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I switched to Vista last spring, with hardly a look back. It's on both my computers, the Lenovo T61 and MacBook Pro. For those times I do need XP, it's still running on the AMD tower in my office. This fall, however, I'm doing workflow training for the Associated Press internationally, and need to do that running Windows XP. And the last thing I wanted to do was wipe a laptop and re-load XP.

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A big part of what I do these days is teach digital photography, and lately I've been getting ready to start my sixth year teaching the Nikon School of Photography classes. So each of the past six summers much of my time's been devoted to creating two new, all-day programs for the schools. And each summer I'm struck by how much our profession continues to be changed by digital.

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