I graduated on Sunday, June 13th from Eleanor Roosevelt College at UCSD. Once my mom left and I settled back into life, well, I didn't really get to settle back in. I had to move out of my apartment by the following Sunday because on Monday the 21st I flew to Kansas City, MO for the 42nd annual SkilllsUSA Leadership and Skills Conference (to which I have attended for the past 6 years). The next Saturday (June 25) I flew to my mom's current home in Fort Collins, CO so I could play with my younger sisters (9 and 7 years old). I will then spend a full week in San Diego getting rid of the last of my nice stuff (sleeping bag, backpack etc) and will be crashing with an assortment of friends before I go to Spokane, Washington to visit my best friend Aliina. I leave Aliina and will spend a night in the LA airport before I hop on a flight to London where I will begin the 3 month journey I am planning for my post-graduation celebration.
My travel plans are...well, not planned. A good friend Brian was so kind to send me all of his old Europe travel books (he did a big trip the summer of 07) and otherwise I haven't really had the time to make plans. I know that I have friends in a few places that I'd like to see, and there are a few sights that peak my interest, but part of this trip was to not have a plan.
The general idea of what I'll be doing is as follows...
Fly into London July 14th
Fly to Dublin July 17th to camp around Ireland with a friend
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Yup, that's all I got. On a more general note though, after Dublin I'll go over to Edinburgh to see some castles and meet with another I-House friend Tom and maybe visit Glasglow before going south to Manchester, the locale of another friend. I'd like to stop by Bristol to visit the friend who I lived with in London a few summers ago before heading across to France.
Generally from Paris, we'll see some of the French countryside and hopefully a good number of wineries as we mosy the way over to Switzerland. Rumor has told me that there is an amazing train ride over the French Alps and into the Swiss territory and I fully intend to find out more about that. After perusing across Switzerland, I want to plunge into Italy and plan to hit up a number of the famous cities as well as spend some time in the Tuscan countryside. Generallly after Italy I'll head north through Germany to visit a few friends before making my way further north.
And that's the general plan....
I do have a "15 day in 2 months" Eurail pass that will come in handy and I'm aware of a large number of discount airlines that will often only charge you 5 euro for a flight. I also hope to work on an organic farm somewhere through WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) and am doing my best to find an ashram at which I can work and do some yoga before I have to get back stateside.
If anyone has ideas, please spill them here! I'll seriously go anywhere that you can make sound tempting enough!
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