Eva with One Canon Camera and Two Parker Pens

Nov 14th, 2008

She had a canon camera and two parker pens with her and she loved writing with them as much as she did clicking snaps of what she wrote about, with her camera.

Those were the days when digital cameras hadn't yet hit the market.

Canon Camera EOS XT 8MP Digital

And she loved traveling more than she loved herself.

It was Eva who met me a week after Jean had left for France. She saw my tent and was sold on it.

"Could I also pitch my tent along yours?" - she spoke her first sentence to me.

"The land is not mine... or it's as much yours as mine. Go ahead." - I said.

She was an American who had set on a world tour that she had planned to complete not in a hurry but at leisure. She wanted to play the game of life on quite her own terms. And our ways quite matched each other's too. So we turned very fast friends very soon.

I helped her in pitching her tent. It was a red color two men tent that made a beautiful combination with my yellow tent in the backdrop of the green trees around.

As the pitching was done, she took out her camera and snapped me with both the tents in the background.

Canon Camera EOS 30D Digital SLR

"You love photos?" - I asked.

"I need them more than I love them." - and she started laughing.

"Why?" - I got curious.

"They earn me money to live and travel around the globe. And there is one more thing that shares company with them - my parker pens!" - she showed me two beautiful, sleek pens that she wrote her memoirs and travelogues with in order to send them to the magazines that would happily pay her so much for single article as would be sufficient for her to comfortably stay for full 6 months in a third world country like India.

Two Parker Pens

Those were the days when there was no Google or the Internet, and real good snaps with real good copy were in real great demand by the magazines like National Geographic and like!

May be it is still the same scenario but I haven't checked it lately.