So it begins AKA bored at the airport

Blogs. Damn, haven't written an entry in one since having a Xanga in 10th grade. Anyways, I felt like starting this one up so people might hear about the strangers->friends I meet, their lives, and local cultures. Along the way I'm sure to accumulate some great stories, learn what pubs are the best, and party it up etc. ;-)

I have my aunt to thank who has more money than she knows what to do with for getting me this amazing iPad 2 with 3G as a graduation gift so I won't have to journal by hand and transcribe to a blog.

For those of you who don't know, I decided back in March after coming back from my two week stint in China to go backpacking in Europe, meeting up with people along the way. Don't know if the latter part of that statement will be true BUT I will be Couchsurfing (see profile) all the days I'm not with my sister which are just a few days in Germany and Denmark (maybe Sweden) at the beginning and end of the trip. CS is a network of people across the globe who open up their homes to others and share each others' cultures. Experiences vary greatly, the most raucous parties ever to a chill stay filled with intellectual conversation. I have heard nothing but great things so I knew this was something I had to do. I have informally couch surfed Stateside on both coasts but this is sure to be something else.

Hopefully, through this blog I can keep my mind occupied during the countless hours I will spend sitting on trains and at train stations. That is when I'm not chatting it up with other passengers or more likely, sleeping to make up for hardly ever sleeping ever :-P

I'm off to Europe! Cant believe it. Just last week I was frantically scrambling how to fill the 10 days that was set aside for Egypt and lengthen my 15 flex day Eurail Global Pass. Too bad that fell through... And oh yeah, graduated from college 3 days ago. Feeling a lot better after last night when I had hosts in Zagreb, Salzburg, and Prague confirmed they could host me.

So here goes my life savings and an adventure of a lifetime. Hoo ah!

My relatively set itinerary (well, at least the first half): http://bit.ly/hja8M5