Hey Phil - thanks for the postcard... Great to hear from you, and happy trails!
Heather

I enjoyed the "trip" through the great Southwest. I am a retired truck driver, and have traveled all over the eastern U.S., east of the Mississippi. However, I have never been west, and probably never will be, but your trip was a great cross-section of scenery, and the typical "tourist traps",,,,but then, they are a part of the American Heritage,,,Americana, if you will. Thanks for your great photos, and the way in which they were organized. I'll be back to see more of your photos. Thanks, and God Bless ! Jim

Greetings Phil!!!

Thanks for Your Friendship and Fotki Fun
throughout the year!!! Best Wishes!!! Gary

Or with "Music" in my Journals '-))) ---> http://journals.fotki.com/GaryGS1/GaryGS1Blog/

Hello Slideshowphil,

we are happy to let you know that your contest entry:

http://contests.fotki.com/contests/51/5946.html

is included into Breathtaking Photo of the Moment section at Fotki home page.

Thank you for being an active Fotkin!

Yours,
Fotki team

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Hi Phil!!! Glad it all worked out!!! Yes,,, that would be a scare... I have about the same as you... Although, I have everything on hard drive back up and also on individual CD And DVD disks (it's sort of a mish mosh from over the years of changing how I saved things,,, it would be a nightmare to have to upload all again and probably would never do it. Plus all the comments and other work would be gone... let's not think about that... '-(((

Just keep your originals safe and in order in two places... best quality disks (CD's or DVD's) as even these are said to now deterioate over time, as well also keeping a back up on a hard disk (or two). Personal storage devices are cheap now. A 500 gig external media drive is about 250 bucks or less. I save my photos on my external HP 300 gig media drive to keep my main PC from getting bogged down with stored data. In addition, I do a nightly auto backup using Sonic Backup software to back up this onto another HP 300 gig media drive (just in case as it still would be alot of work working from old photo disks)

Good Luck and Best Wishes!!! Gary

PS... I am back in Nj now '-)))

PS2... I added you to my friends list,,, hope that's ok!!!

Hey Phil,

When I hitchhiked with you, you didn't mention that you are a fantastic photographer! The only thing you left me was "search on fotki for Slideshowphil..." I realy like your style. The detail you never miss.

Thanks again for the ride, the coffee and the nice conversation we had!

Groeten uit Nederland, Michiel.

Great pictures of Dubrovnik, I'm going to this place in august.

hi, got here from the Fotki home page with one of your fireworks pictures but cna't find which album.... feel free to check my fireworks out @ cmellgren... as well i like your painted ladies, and am trying to check out your barbados pictures to see where you checked out.. i have a bunch more to add to my album!

YOUR PHOTOS ARE WONDERFUL,,LINDA,,HAVE A NICE EASTER,,

I have reviewed some of your amazing albums as a slideshow and I truly liked your photos so much. If you do not mind, I have added you to my friends’ list. Also I am inviting you to visit my albums too. Have a happy Easter my friend.

Hi all! :)
I know that this is a generic msg, and I'm so sorry about that...I sincerely want to thankyou for your visits/comments/gb entries!
When I have more time, I'd like to explore as much of your albums as I can...:)

Trynh
http://trynh.fotki.com

Congratulations to you for coming in 2nd.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~trish~

Gidday mate

Congrats on coming 2nd in the meal contest. I think you should have won because your entry was accurate to the theme and a meal you could have had today. Great photo!

Peter

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Congratulations! You had a great Meal photo.

I will vote for you with pleasure! But I do not know what's some of the stuff on your plate.

Lyuba

Thanks for the vote. Also im married to a canadian so good luck

Love your concert ticket stub folder - what a great idea.
Cheers,
S.

I like your contest photo, really want to have a taste on that plate ~~~

Crystal

Your photos in your album are very nice!