Where am I going? How will I stay in touch?

Tomorrow I fly to London.  I'm excited, and nervous, and convinced that I'm forgetting to do a million things.  I only have bits and pieces of a plan and I can think of hundreds or reasons why I should not be going, but what it all boils down to is that this is something I need to do.  I am not happy sitting in my little corner of the world simply wondering what is going on "over there."  I must go see for myself. 

This is the plan as of right now.  I must emphasize the right nowness of this statement, my plans seem to change almost hourly.  But I feel that I should put some semblance of a plan here to give people an idea of what I'm doing.

October 28th ->  arrive in London. I'm couchsurfing with a lovely couple Nana and Paul, they've been nice enough to open up their home to me for an entire week and have offered to show me around.  Through the couchsurfing (CS) website I also got in contact with John Tisdale an american, stationed in Afghanistan, who will also be visiting London while I'm there.  We're meeting that afternoon outside of the British museum.  Together we will see sites, drink beer, and explore the city.  It will be fantastic.  Last night it also occurred to me that my friend from college, Delly Dyer, was living in London.  I quickly contacted her on Facebook and we'll be meeting up.  It's a small world and the Cre Comm mafia has international borders. 

October 4th ->  catch a bus to Paris.  I saved a lot of money by booking in advance and taking the bus not the train (my ticket cost only 10 euros).  The trade off?  The trip takes 9 hours.  Yuck.  I arrive in Paris very late but have a couch for two nights with another wonderful couple I met off of CS.  

October 7th -> This is not certain yet but I have been invited to go and study/work with an artist in Southern France with full room and board.  This makes me very excited.  I will follow up in a later post once I have more information.

October 15th ->  This is where the plan begins to unravel.  Maybe another week in the south of France, perhaps moving quickly onto Barcelona.  After a few weeks in Spain I'll head to Portugal, Morroco (a mutual friend of Steve and I will be there for Christmas), over to Italy, Greece, Turkey, up into Eastern Europe and maybe, if I'm not completely broke, into Northern Europe.  

Ambitious?  yes.  But, I'm probably only going to do something like this once, so why not dream big?

Now the real question:  How can you keep in touch with me? 

1. You can text me.  I can receive unlimited text messages.  If you're thinking of me for any reason, please please please text me.  I won't answer but know that it will make me very happy to hear from you. 
2. I can text you, but I only get 50/month, so you probably won't get a text from me saying "hey, what's up?"
3. I'll be sending postcards through a fabulous website hippopost.com.  Lame name, but fantastic concept.  By selling ad space on postcards they cover the cost of printing and postage, allowing you to send free postcards.  
4. Email. 
5. Facebook.
6. This blog.  Please comment on my posts... even if it is to tell me that I'm a big lame-o, or that I've said "wonderful" twelve times in a single post.  

However you get in touch with me it will be 'wonderful' to hear from you!