All Photojournals are now FREE to view!

Post by **Winston** » November 15th, 2008, 7:39 am

Hi all,

AOL Pictures has announced that it will shut down on December 31, 2008. Unfortunately, my Photojournals is hosted through them, so they may be gone by then.

So, until then, I am making them FREE to view, all nine of them, so that you can enjoy them before they're gone. So if you haven't seen them yet or haven't seen all of them, now's your chance before they are gone at the end of the year. The link again is:

http://www.happierabroad.com/Photojournals.htm

I will try to see if I can move them to another web service. AOL has allowed us to transfer the photos to a partner service, but when I did that, they were all out of order and contained no captions.

So I do not know whether I can move them to another service properly. It's even possible that the Photojournals will still work after AOL Pictures shuts down, since they were done in an old format that AOL hasn't supported in years. So it may be that you can't create albums, but you can still view the old ones. I don't know.

Anyhow, there are hundreds of pictures of beautiful friendly girls I met in Russia and Europe in those photojournals, so if you haven't seen them yet, you are missing out big time, I can promise you that. So have a look when you get the chance.

Regards,
Winston

PS - Also check out the new home page layout at http://www.happierabroad.com. I've tried to make it look more catchy and compact, with each section leading up to the other, until the collages, photojournals and videos. Check it out and let me know what you think.

jtest28 · Post by **jtest28** » November 16th, 2008, 9:20 am

I can't get any of them to load. Does it just take a tremendous amount of time because of the sheer data volume? Or is their site not working properly? I clicked on the link and even took a shower, and when I got out, I still had this screen.

Post by **Winston** » November 16th, 2008, 9:53 am

Hi everyone,
By the way, some of you emailed me asking how to access the Photojournals. It's simple, when you click on one of the 9 Photojournal links, you get to a welcome page with a login. Above the login you will see a light blue button that says "View Album as Guest". Click on that one and the album will load up.

Remember to open them in Firefox though, not Internet Explorer, as they will load up way better in Firefox.

I would view them in chronological order. I should also note that my 2nd trip to Russia 2003 is in my opinion the best one. There were more life learning experiences during that trip, as well as this energy and excitement that was lacking in the third trip. But the third trip journals, all 7 of them, are still a great visual display and very interesting. But as far as memorability, meaning and nostalgia goes, I'd say the second trip was the best one, at least for me it was. It had a certain life altering impact that the other trips didn't share as much. The first trip was like that too, but just on a smaller and shorter scale. But the third trip was like beating a dead horse, and at that point the best was behind me. I was just wandering around pointlessly without accomplishing anything, even though it had dramatic and dangerous events such as the muggings.

So, drama followed me everywhere in Russia, on all three trips. But the second was the most memorable, possibly because Julia and Katya were involved the most in it. I guess that means that without them, the trips got less interesting.

Post by **Winston** » November 16th, 2008, 9:58 am

jtest28 wrote:I can't get any of them to load. Does it just take a tremendous amount of time because of the sheer data volume? Or is their site not working properly? I clicked on the link and even took a shower, and when I got out, I still had this screen.

W: Sometimes. You have a DSL connection right? It should only take a few seconds to load. Try again. Use a Firefox browser by the way. It loads much faster in Firefox than Explorer. I tested them yesterday and they still work fine.