Michelangelo sibyl from the Sistine Chapel

 

london paris rome

Planning my trip to Europe is starting to feel more and more like researching a paper for college except that I won't get graded on my final product. The amount of information that I have absorbed over the past few weeks is amazing and hopefully what I will get for all of my time and trouble will be a really good time. So in my continuing effort to learn more and more about where I'll be in July, I returned the seven or so guidebooks that I had checked out from the libray and walked out with about seven new ones to consume over the next few weeks.

At the moment my brother is in Illinois searching for a place to live when he starts graduate school in the fall, so I won't get any more feedback from him about our trip until he returns.

Something occurred to me about our trip that I hadn't thought about before. Those three weeks in Europe will be the longest time that I'll have spent with my brother in years, but I guess that isn't that unusual considering our age difference. Seven years is a fairly large gap for us to be hanging out all of the time.

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I must like spending money, because I'm already thinking of where I want to go next year. At the top of the list is New Zealand. I had planned on doing Britain and Ireland by myself, but now I am thinking that the South Pacific would be a nice change of pace.

Another way for me to spend money would be on a new car. In a year my lease runs out on my current car and I haven't given too much thought about what kind of car I want to get to replace it. About the only thing that I know is that I want something new. I will never ever drive a used car again. There are too many memories of me being towed in my bargain price cars.

 
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