Hello all, After 30 days of backpacking through Europe, my trip sadly comes to an end. Once through with this email I will be heading off to Heathrow Airport to catch my last Air India flight back to the US. I will be home today (friday) around 4pm, but NYC traffic will be fun, putting [...]

Couchettes are an interesting apparatus. About 6 feet long and 2 feet wide, they are designed to hold a human being, asleep, for a 9 hour train ride….Comfortable? I think not….But for some reason (exhaustion) I slept quite nice… Arriving in Rome Sunday morning I met Brett at Hostel Allessandro, right behind the train station [...]

I am writing to you all from Nice, France After 3 days in Paris and 3 days in Marseille. I am off to Rome this evening on an overnight train to meet Brett and Ackman to finish the rest of my trip with them On my way to Paris I had a stop over is [...]

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I figured while I am uploading my pictures from my trip so far, I would update everyone to what’s happened since I met Jannette in Dublin… After staying up for over 24 hours, I arrived in Dublin and Jannette quickly found me (surprising considering we had not established a place to meet). We headed off [...]

Sitting here a couple hours before I head out for my overnight in Holyhead, Wales to catch the ferry to Dublin….. My second day in Brighton was just as exciting as the first, walked around a wee bit, enjoyed a nice sunny day and read a bunch. Brighton just was not a very exciting place [...]

Sitting here at 10:30 in the AM at a cafe in Brighton, England. Things have been going fantasticall well so far, but it is a bit cold right now. Yesterday was beautifully warm out and I enjoyed the afternoon on the rock beach on the coast of the River Thames. Brighton is a prett hip [...]

Two days in the bank now and they have both been absolutely fantastic. After arriving in London yesterday, I roamed around the area near my hostel then headed through Hyde Park on my way to the Science Center and History Museum. They were certainly two of coolest museums I have beent too. Huge displays of [...]

I am officially on the other side of the ocean. I arrived at London, Heathrow airport at 8:30 am local time and promptly tube’d over to my hostel right next to Notting Hill. The goal of course is to see Julia Roberts in the next two days. Guarantee she will fall in love with me, [...]

In 16 hours I will be on an Air India flight to Heathrow (London, England). I can’t believe I am actually going, I was never sure this trip would actually come together. But it has and quite soon I will be backpacking my way through a land on the other side of the ocean. I [...]