Tuesday, July 26, 2005

T-Minus One Day & Counting...

I leave for the UK tomorrow -- Brink and I are so excited!

Here's a brief rundown of our itinerary:

*Thursday 28 July -- Saturday 30 July: Stoke-on-Trent (where Brink lives, outside Manchester)
*Saturday 30 July:
Helensburgh (West of Loch Lomond)
*Sunday 31 July:
Tobermory (Isle of Mull); near Brink's family's ancestral home
*Monday 1 August: Pitlochry; near my family's ancestral home
*Tuesday 2 August: Ambleside (in the Lake District)
*Wednesday 3 August: Bratislava, Slovak Republic

*Thursday 4 August -- Monday 8 August: Dubrovnik, Croatia
*Monday 8 August:
Cologne, Germany
*Tuesday 9 August -- Thursday 11 August: Paris, France
*Thursday 11 August: return to the US

And here's a photo of our last trip to the UK, in May... King & Queen for a day!






Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Getting started

so, i'm in quite a transitional place in my life, so i figured this would be a good time to start writing about it. i can't make any promises that i'm actually going to keep up with this at all, but i'm going to try to write as much as possible when the mood strikes me. goooooooood times.