So here is my travel journal from my backpacking trip to Europe. It's more involved than my day log stuff that's already been up the site. There has been some complaining (you know who you are) that my daylog was rather boring and that it focused too much on the details of transportation. I can't promise that this is less boring, but's there's certainly a hell of lot more of it. Occasional parts of the journal have been omitted to protect the (not-so)innocent. These parts really weren't that common, but hey - use your imagination. Keep in mind that this is a journal and things like punctuation, sentence structure, paragraph breaks, grammar, and spelling may or may not been a part of the writing process. Not to mention my almost criminal use of parenthesis. Like my pictures, the writing is quite erratic as far as consistency of content. The journal style kind of mutates over the course of the trip. Read at your own risk.
 4/28 Cincinnati 4/30 Paris 5/02 Paris 5/03 Paris 5/04 Bayeux 5/06 Toulouse 5/07 Barcelona 5/08 Barcelona 5/09 Madrid 5/11 Salamanca 5/12 Salamanca 5/13 Barcelona 5/14 Portbou 5/15 Narbonne 5/17 Nice 5/18 Venice 5/20 Naples 5/21 Rome 5/22 Rome 5/24 Florence 5/25 La Spezia 5/26 Lucerne 5/29 Interlaken 5/30 Interlaken 6/03 Amsterdam 6/04 London 6/06 Salisbury 6/09 Nottingham 6/11 Edinburgh 6/13 Kyleakin 6/15 Dublin 6/17 Dublin 6/23 Hamburg 6/27 Brussels 6/29 Berlin 7/01 Prague 7/02 Munich 7/03 Munich |
4/28 - Cincinnati, Ohio Holy shit. I'm actually doing this. As the plane takes off for my second leg of my flight, I've made the executive decision to keep a journal separate from what I put on my website. You know, slightly more personal, with all the racy details. Anyway, I was fairly nervous last night and this morning, after realizing how unprepared I am(or at least how unprepared I feel). On the heels of my little debacle with the eurail pass, I was realizing how little effort I've actually put into the planning of this trip. Whether that proves to be a liability remains to be seen. The other thing that's bothering me is how much my parents have helped on this thing. The guidebook looks to be my lifeline on this trip and I wouldn't even have it if my mom hadn't bugged me to take it. And let's not forget the plane ticket, eurail ticket, and health insurance I wouldn't have w/o my dad's help. And what's bugging me is whether or not that's a bad thing. I seem to have tapped into something more than I have the patience for right now, so I may try and tackle that later. Anywho... From the tone of this entry, it would seem that I'm not that excited about going to europe. Not so. After spending a while with the guidebook in the airport this morning and getting a better feel for what I'm doing, I was all rarin' to go. Of course, I still have ridiculous amounts of flying to do, which may explain the somber tone. |