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Insanity Returning from Europe

This is Tyler, Jessie and I at nearly our most insane. At this point I’d been up for about 30 hours, and was looking forward to some rest before landing in Portland. Notice I said nearly our most insane because their was a child (probably 6 or 7 years old) sitting a seat to my left and one row back that was the spawn of the devil. I am confident in saying this. Their was no more than a 5 minute gap between him uttering a scream/yell- for 9 straight hours. The sound could comfortably be compared to a cross between a mule’s bray and a blood-curdling scream. This demon seed would further make sure my life was a living hell by kicking the seat next to me every ten minutes. I swear he had an alarm that would go off whenever he saw my eyes start to flutter closed. Never have I seen so many people (half the plane) united against someone so young. As if to substantiate his demonic possession, when we got off the plane he stood at the baggage claim pushing bags over as a airline worker propped them up.

I don’t blame him fully, his parents had no activities to keep him occupied, and didn’t even try to control him. By the time we landed my sanity had been pushed farther and harder than I had ever thought possible.

Prague in Snow

Over Christmas; Tyler, Jess, and I went to Europe. This photo was taken by Tyler during our first evening in Prague. We walked the whole city and towards the end of the day the snow started falling. It was something out of a dream.

let it snow

Prague

this place is so different. I have loved every minute of the trip so far, as hectic and scattered as its been. Right now I’m at my hostel in prague, tomorrow we head to salsburg, then munich for new years. prague has a beauty i’ve never seen before and don’t have time to describe. i’ve been here for almost 48 hours and already have stories for daysssss… a thought occured to me last night. have we lost the ability to trust anyone? i feel like trust is something we need in order to feel safe and comfortable in our environment. it seems we lost that somewhere along the line. was it a childhood innocence destroyed by betrayal? or a gradual phase-shift society has subconsiously enacted? either way, it seems to me we no longer have the ability to put faith in someone. we always guard ourselves either physically, mentally, or emotionally. how have we become this way? how have I become this way?? I have that ability to change. and i will. will you?

Europe-bound!

This Christmas I’m going to be in Europe. Well, a couple days after anyway. Jessie and I have talked about doing this for a while, and decided it was as good a time as any. We didn’t want to go by ourselves so we brought Tyler along for the ride.. It promises to be a great trip! The travel schedule is as follows:

December 27, 1:25pm - Arrive at Frankfurt Airport via LH 433

We plan to leave as soon as we can and head for Prague, Czech Republic

December 27 - 30: Prague

We’ll leave Prague on December 30th and head for Munich, Germany

December 30 - January 2: Munich

We’ll leave Munich on January 2nd and head for Interlaken, Switzerland

January 2 - 5: Interlaken

We’ll leave Interlaken on January 5th and haed back to Frankfurt

January 6th: Depart Frankfurt at 10:15am

Obviously this trip has holes in it. On purpose. If you have any advice/ideas/pointers PLEASE let me know. Also if you can be/will be in the area I would LOVE to meet up with you.

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