hi...

question #1 -- where did the summer go?

They say time flies, but this is kinda out of hand. I'm leaving the country in 16 days - what? craziness. A few weeks ago, someone told me that i'm the kind of person they'd expect would keep a blog. I don't know exactly what that means but a) i think it's a compliment and b) it's almost certainly true....

I will be spending the fall semester in Rome (amazing) and i'm going to attempt to document the situation.

But before Rome, I'm off to explore europe with quite possibly two of my favorite people ever: Melanie Mason and Sasha Salinger. Dublin. Edinburgh. Amsterdam. Prague. Vienna. Budapest. Except for Edinburgh, I've never been to any of these cities. We're doing backpacking/hostel style traveling. Not gonna lie, I'm almost the most excited for the hydrofoil trip down the Danube haha... score. (http://www.budapesthotels.com/touristguide/mahart.asp)


I'm off... but in classic, appropriately corny, "me" fashion... ill leave you with a quote (or two):

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round ... do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature ... Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau,

"Not all who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien


...much love...