A lesson in relying on nylon

I'm attempting to travel lite, and that means not lugging around a huge amount of stuff to get my job done. So for art development I'm using a sketchpad, a camera to photograph images from said sketchpad, and a laptop to add the color to those images with Photoshop. Well on Saturday a critical element of that trio fell onto a very sharp rock. My camera's strap broke while I was gingerly stepping over a colony of small sea creatures on a beach near Santa Cruz CA, and now it's in very poor working condition. So later this week I'll be tracking down a Best Buy when we move onto Napa Valley Wednesday, and finding out if they're going to honor my 3-year warranty.