The Kindness of Strangers

Dateline 7 July 2014: Early morning, Hampton Inn, Utica, New York.
The camera case with wanderlust
I had planned to upload my photos from the day before to my computer, choose one for my daily Facebook post celebrating the road trip we were on—and the camera was not where I expected it to be. I checked the room without success. I thought about when I had last used it (taking a picture of the bridge over the Hudson River we’d crossed) and what I had done with the camera (zipped it into a soft c...