Since my old camera broke and I wasn’t able to fix it, I decided to use it as what I call ‘karma checkpoints’. I took out my memory card and batteries and put a note inside that said
:” Karma Checkpoint. congratulations. If you found this and intended to return it you have earned good karma, if you did not intend to return it…well…you can keep it anyway.”
Then on the back I put this website address.
Then I walked out of my friend Rafe’s apartment in Brussels this morning and set it on the ledge of a window. Then I walked around the corner. Not more than 2 minutes later I came around the corner again and the camera was gone. Ahead of me were only two likely suspects since there had been no one on the street prior to my placing the camera and there were only two men walking away from it. They were an older guy and a younger guy with a green mohawk.
It could have been someone else, but I think it likely it was the older guy who picked it up, of course no one knows but the blond woman on the second floor who watched the whole drama from the office of her insurance company.
Will the real person who took the camera fess up and comment here? There is no telling…only time will tell.
I love to do this sort of thing.
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Vago Damitio (@vagodamitio) is the Editor-in-Chief for Vagobond. He jumped ship from a sinking dotcom in 2000 and decided to reclaim his most valuable commodity, time. He bought a VW bus for $100, moved into it and set out on a journey to show the world that it was possible to live life on your own terms. That journey took him from waking up under icy blankets in the Pacific Northwest to waking up under palm tress in Southeast Asia. Three years later, his first book, Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond was published. After diving into the Anthropology of Tourism and Electronic Anthropology at the University of Hawaii (with undeclared minors in film and surf) he hit the road again in 2008. Since that time,he's lived primarily in Morocco and Turkey, married a Moroccan girl he couchsurfed with, and become a proud father. He's been to more than 40 countries, founded a successful online travel magazine (this one!), and still doesn't have a boss. Life is good. You can also find him on Google+ and at Facebook
