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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I’m back home now and I must say I really miss Europe.  Everything about it was so much fun, from the Swiss Alps, to the London Eye, it was all an experience of a lifetime.  It’s really hard coming home after going on an adventure like that and come back to my windowless office, but I guess thats just life.

Reflecting on this trip I really didn’t want this to be my last big adventure for years with just little short drives to different states every few months or so, because if you can’t go around and travel and do crazy stuff all the time at 23, when can you do it?  I’m in my prime right now and I have to start doing something about it.  So after some thought and planning, I have decided I will attempt to bike across the United States, starting in Virginia, and riding all the way to California.

London, Day 1

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

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After a long flight, which seemed like an hour because I slept the whole way, we finally made it to London. Being my usual self I lost the directions to my sister’s flat and we had to rely on the iphone and its 10% battery life to make it there. London today was really quite stunning, I was expecting dreary and overcast weather with a 90% chance of rain. However it was only mildly cold and fairly sunny.

I still can’t get over how clean the city is, everywhere you go is just clean, and everyone seems to be wearing designer clothes. I feel really under dressed for this city with my gap long sleeve waffle shirt, and blue jeans. Since the weather was so nice we decided to ride on the London Eye which was really quite amazing. I particularly liked the random James Bond wax figure they had in the line for the Eye. Once we got in and started gaining altitude the view was amazing and the sky had these hues of pink and orange strewn across it. We also had a very nice and spectacular view of Big Ben and the Parliament building. I’m starting to feel pretty tired and will probably take a nap in preparation for our travel over to Switzerland tomorrow.