Cheers from London

So I write this huge post on the airplane and find out that either blogger or my Palm has issues with copying and pasting large amounts of text. So what you see below is an experpt and accounts for about a fifth of the total amount of what I wrote. I might post more of it later, since it was darn funny (at least in my delusional overtired and slightly-tipsy-from-free-airplane-beer state).

Right now I'm in the Dover Castle Bar sipping back a Stella and feeling surprisingly okay, considering on the plane I got maybe 1.5 hours of sleep from my 15 minute power naps. Air Canada has managed to create the least comfortable chairs to sleep in I've ever seen. And you're talking to someone who has fallen asleep during a thunderstorm in the middle of the woods with only a rainjacket and small shrub for cover.

My battery is fading fast, and I need to head off and find sandles for the shower.

Cheers!

Flight from Calgary to London - 10pm

I caught my ride and arrived at the airport and was counselled by the check in clerk to proceed through security as soon as possible as it was very busy, so I did so and found myself through security in 10 minutes, with over 2 hours to idle away until my flight actually left. In the Calgary airport there is a glass divider, dividing the international and US sides of the international post-security terminal. And for some damnable reason, the American side is the one with all the cool stuff. A lounge, a few restaurants, even an inexplicably larger general shop than the International side. Why the Calgary Airport would do this is a mystery, even more so is why they would do it and then have glass dividers showing you what you're missing out on by not travelling to the States. I suspect some international government conspiracy that everyone long ago forgot the point of.

tick tock

just a few hours left... pretty nervous let me tell ya. also,the handwriting recognition software on this PDA kinda blows, so this is all you're getting till i'm in Calgary tomorrow!

Insurance Ignonimy 2006: Breaking News!

"For that matter, what happened to my phone bill? Hey, and my rainjacket?! Didn't I go to my parents and pick up all this stuff and put it in a white plastic bag?"

Looks in corner of apartment and sees white plastic bag.

"Ohhhh....."

Approaching critical....

Dedicated most of tonight to getting my new TX toy working how I want. Took a while, fidgeted with settings, had to go into the file structure itself a bit to fix some problems, learned some handy troubleshooting techniques.... and after two hours I now have a fully functioning chatting, web browsing, music playing machine!

On the downside.... I can't find my insurance forms. I was trying to get all my travel documents together so I can't make copies at work tomorrow, and my insurance is worryingly MIA.... last time I saw it, it was on the coffee table, and it looks distressingly like a random pile of papers, so I'm hoping it didn't get accidentally cleared out.

Four days to go! Eeep!

New Toy

Bought a Palm Tungsten TX for my trip. A few problems here and there... like Apple won't let me bring over music from iTunes to the TX. That bites. And it seems I can't view all the websites I'd like... but I am using it to make this post, which is pretty nifty!

Ups and Downs

Good news: It seems my backpack IS machine washable.

Bad news: After being washed twice, it still smells of campfire.

Ola!

Welcome to my travel blog, my recording of my passage through Europe, this summer of 2006. I'll be periodically updating with pictures and thoughts and observances. At the moment I'm half excited, half panicked that there are a millions things I'm forgetting before I leave in just a week!