Blog Archive - Posts from 2003
my last locale-based entry, i am home. after 20 some hours on planes, trains and automobiles, i arrived last night. a little tired, it was nice to sta...
i'm doing something that i never thought would happen. i'm now sitting in heathrow airport, typing my very last european journal entry. five months, m...
well, an entire CITY has happened since the last update. york has come and gone, and though i actually had internet access there (gasp!), for whatever...
so i'm sitting here in the library of 'stow', as the town is affectionaltely known as. aparently, stow-blah-blah-blah is too much for people to say, a...
i swear, coming to england has been a bigger transitional period than it EVER was going to "foreign" countries. even to the countries like b...
had a wonderful day yesterday, taking the scooter about a half an hour away with a girl to some beach that i had not been to. a half an hour on the sc...
i appologize for the complete lack of postings in about the last week or so. the days just seem to fly by, and every day i think to myself, "tomo...
i have to admit, upon first arriving here in plakias, i didn't understand the draw. i mean, when i checked in, chris the guy running the place talked ...
at long freaking last, i have arrived. where however, i hardly know. i kinda took a stab in the dark at the island of crete, and ended up in a speck o...
well, i'm not sure if i quite took 100 pictures, but it sure does feel like it. another one of those places, where every few steps you encountered ano...
lets see, the past few days... sofia was great, actually starting to get much better, settled in to the hostel and whatnot. a nice little group of fri...
much to my surprise, last nights 12 hour night train journey from bucharest to here, was less painfull than i would have imagined. i may go so far as ...
so i'm NOT going to istanbul. nor turkey at all. that was just an ill-fated dream i guess, spurred by the talk of everyone around me spouting off abou...
(i just typed up this ENTIRE entry, and the computer ate it. literally. bastard computer. *sigh*, i guess i'll type it again..) soo, the 4 of us, 2 ot...
not much time to write.. gotta catch a night train here real soon. headed off to see some painted monasteries in north east romania. aparently they're...
coming to romania was quite the experience. i took the day train, even though it was a whopping 12 hour trip, as people had said that the night train ...
well, i've been in budapest for nearly a week. i'm quite in love with the city really, and more so the hostel. if not THE best one thus far, damn clos...
well, it is officially POURING outside right now, here in budapest. luckily, i was able to tuck into this fine internet cafe moments after getting com...
last night, again, attempted to get caught up in my journal, which is now some 2+ weeks behind. nice huh? but per usual, i got interrupted. a group of...
so last night ended up quite a bit different than i had invisioned it, as i was planning on just sitting around, trying to get caught up in my journal...
i could have probably stayed in salzburg for a couple more days, the hostel was quite a bit of fun, but most of the people were leaving, so i figured ...
i hate to be cliché, but i couldn't help it. its sound of music this, and sound of music that, all over this place.. i DIDN'T go on the sound o...
well, actually, i'm typing this from a hotel in frankfurt. buuut, i'd already written from here, and we're merely here for the evening, and rothenburg...
well, george and i are here in munich, just about ready to rent our car and head off towards rothenburg for a night, and then its back to frankfurt. h...
though not really FUNNY, george and my first day or so of travel, all i could do was laugh really. cause it was just BAD. allow me to expound... meet ...
sooo, i haven't updated in a LOOOOONG time. this i do know, but i've been traveling almost constantly for the past few days (forgive me if there's wei...
allow me to begin a few days ago, around the time of the radiohead concert. as was to be expected, the show was AMAZING. more so than i actually had i...
back in madrid... spent 7 freaking hours on the train today, at least it wasn't crowded and it was airconditioned. i was able to sleep quite well, mak...
not a whole lot of time to type here, but just a few quick things.. first, just got off the WORST train ever, a smoking car for 3 freaking hours. i wa...
first off... pictures!! words cannot describe how happy i am right now that i am currently in the process of sending ALL of my pictures to my website!...
strange things keep happening here in madrid, good things, but just random. reminds me of how much i like being on my own.. i was walking down the hal...
so aparently all the heat that was missing from barcelona, is here. its freaking oppressive. i guess it's like this at home too, but still. thing is, ...
for anyone and everyone concerned, i have been to pamplona, and am now sitting safely in an internet cafe back in barcelona. four people were gored to...
wow. such good things happening here in barcelona, the city is really quite amazing. its really neat too, being in a city for this long, especially on...
still tooling around barcelona, and it looks like i will be for some time now. at least the remainder of the week. its pretty great here, a nice large...
well, i met up with jim and vanessa in montpellier a few days back, ended up meeting them at mcdonalds. the greatest mcdonalds ever, right on this mai...
well, nice was nice, but "the dungeon", where i was staying, was not. it was rather fun though, i hung out with the iowa girl last night, an...
(haha, i had "NICE, ITALY" there for a bit.. i'm finally out of italy! aah) aaanywho... last night, in cinque terre. i was making my pasta i...
well, aparently anyway. i shall find out tonight! as i bought me some fresh pesto, and pasta, and as soon as i finish here i'm back to the room to mak...
i'm going to talk just a tad about rome, as thats where we were yesterday. up EARLY, for about the millionth time in a row, to catch the early train i...
been spending the nights here in naples with julie's brother and his family, and have been doing some rather long days trips out from here. its a neat...
getting a fair amount of computer time in.. thats fine, i don't mind ;-) posted the pictures robin emailed me from the choir trip. similar to mine, bu...
was able to sleep in today, in a real bed, which was the nicest ever. even though its like a billion degrees here (actually, only 101 today), it still...
sitting in naples, at julie's brother tom's house, with a REAL COMPUTER, so guess what that means... pictures!!! hurray.. i'm putting them all in a te...
today its another balmy 95 degree day in italy. actually, this morning when we were doing most of our walking, it wasn't TOO bad. sleeping in the heat...
so i must first apologize for my website being down, and for not responding to emails over the past few days. internet has been virtually nonexistant ...
so a lot has happened in the last few days since i last updated. before i begin i really can't believe that i've only been here for 5 days. i've done ...
last night after i got done with the internet, i got back to the room, and met the first of my 3 roomates.. david, a quirky french businessman type. w...
let me preface by saying that i made it here in one piece. much to my surprise. i thought that the traveling would never stop, but here it is, almost ...