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Hello! I post this post from the kitchen of our hostel in the wonderful Rome, Italy. It is sad, this may be my last post on this trip, seeing as tomorrow I take off for London where I will stay for 36 hours or so before I board my next flight that will eventually get me to Chicago! And then to Minnesota! And then home! Rome is an incredible city, it’s crazy to be able to stand in front of all of these structures, often in absolute awe, and think about all the things that once happened in that structure, it’s erection, etc. Our hostel is a very short 15 minute walk to the Coliseum and many other Roman buildings, so it’s been very nice (and a bit unreal) to say “Let’s go hang out at the coliseum for an hour or two before our hostel reopens” or something like that. We walked all the way to the Vatican yesterday, but did not see Tom Hanks. A real heartbreaker. We’ve enjoyed the gelato that is served on practically every corner of the street in the busiest parts of town, along with the (drumroll) PIZZA that is served everywhere as well. They don’t do meat lovers over here though, I slowly and painfully found out. Enough blogging for what could be called the last night of my trip, the hostel is hosting a “FREE SPAGHETTI SND DISCO PARTY” tonight, so I will enjoy that and head to the airport tomorrow to start my journey home! London Gatwick airport, please have some cushioned seats, I must sleep in you for two nights…

Hello! I post this post from the kitchen of our hostel in the wonderful Rome, Italy. It is sad, this may be my last post on this trip, seeing as tomorrow I take off for London where I will stay for 36 hours or so before I board my next flight that will eventually get me to Chicago! And then to Minnesota! And then home!
Rome is an incredible city, it’s crazy to be able to stand in front of all of these structures, often in absolute awe, and think about all the things that once happened in that structure, it’s erection, etc. Our hostel is a very short 15 minute walk to the Coliseum and many other Roman buildings, so it’s been very nice (and a bit unreal) to say “Let’s go hang out at the coliseum for an hour or two before our hostel reopens” or something like that. We walked all the way to the Vatican yesterday, but did not see Tom Hanks. A real heartbreaker. We’ve enjoyed the gelato that is served on practically every corner of the street in the busiest parts of town, along with the (drumroll) PIZZA that is served everywhere as well. They don’t do meat lovers over here though, I slowly and painfully found out.
Enough blogging for what could be called the last night of my trip, the hostel is hosting a “FREE SPAGHETTI SND DISCO PARTY” tonight, so I will enjoy that and head to the airport tomorrow to start my journey home! London Gatwick airport, please have some cushioned seats, I must sleep in you for two nights…

November 29, 2011
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Another view from the window!

Another view from the window!

November 24, 2011
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November 24, 2011
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View from the top!

View from the top!

November 24, 2011
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View from the bottom of the tower in Kiel…

View from the bottom of the tower in Kiel…

November 24, 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I hope you are all enjoying the day spent with family and the food you will be eating! Over here in Leipzig, Germany, I was stricken with pain like no other when I found out that they don’t sell take-home rotisserie chickens in their supermarkets. It’s a crying shame, do they not know they could have it so much better?! As a substitute, we snagged some ingredients for a fierce pasta that we’re going to try and create in a little bit here. We made an even crazier pasta last night than the one we have our eyes set on making now, but we made the mistake of making it the day before and supper for today turned into last night’s snack, or as I was calling it to make the situation and eventual dismemberment of our planned Thanksgiving meal a little more sensible, a Thanksgiving Eve meal! We bought an awful amount of snack foods too, so I feel we are living every teenage boy’s dream to forget all about that wholesome, mashed potatoes and turkey business and just eat snack foods sporadically throughout the holiday. At the rate we’ve been going, I don’t know if any of us will be hungry enough to make any pasta for dinner. We’ll see what happens. Any who, yes, we are still in Leipzig, where we have been since the 18th staying with two friends who we met as fellow WWOOFers way back in our days at Casa Do Burro in Portugal. It’s been a very relaxing week filled with some nice walks, some solid movie viewing, some beautiful gazing sessions as we looked out upon Leipzig from the top story windows that occupy the walls of this flat (you too can gaze if you look at the picture posted above!), some much needed laundry-doing, and just an overall celebration of everybody’s company. Tomorrow we must leave our friends here and make our way down to Italy! We leave in the afternoon to ride a train down to Munich, and from there we will get on a bus that will arrive in Rome after a brief 13 hours! It will be a very pretty ride, so I’m sure 13 hours will fly by. And that will be about the end of my travels, and it will be the absolute end for CJ’s, unless you want to count his 13 hour layover in Dublin as another destination. CJ did eventually get a temporary passport in Berlin, but found out that it would be awfully difficult for him to obtain another India visa without applying from the United States. So, on November 30th, I will fly from Rome to London where I will spend one day and two nights with a friend and make my way back to America on the 2nd, and on the 1st, CJ will begin his way back to America as well and Henry will proceed on to India! It’s strange that the end of our collective traveling is so near already, but we still have Rome to take in and enjoy as our one last hoorah! I hear the clinging of pots and pans in the other room, so I’m going to go see if I’m hearing things or if I can’t lend a hand and help prepare this feast. Again, have a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I hope you are all enjoying the day spent with family and the food you will be eating! Over here in Leipzig, Germany, I was stricken with pain like no other when I found out that they don’t sell take-home rotisserie chickens in their supermarkets. It’s a crying shame, do they not know they could have it so much better?! As a substitute, we snagged some ingredients for a fierce pasta that we’re going to try and create in a little bit here. We made an even crazier pasta last night than the one we have our eyes set on making now, but we made the mistake of making it the day before and supper for today turned into last night’s snack, or as I was calling it to make the situation and eventual dismemberment of our planned Thanksgiving meal a little more sensible, a Thanksgiving Eve meal! We bought an awful amount of snack foods too, so I feel we are living every teenage boy’s dream to forget all about that wholesome, mashed potatoes and turkey business and just eat snack foods sporadically throughout the holiday. At the rate we’ve been going, I don’t know if any of us will be hungry enough to make any pasta for dinner. We’ll see what happens.
Any who, yes, we are still in Leipzig, where we have been since the 18th staying with two friends who we met as fellow WWOOFers way back in our days at Casa Do Burro in Portugal. It’s been a very relaxing week filled with some nice walks, some solid movie viewing, some beautiful gazing sessions as we looked out upon Leipzig from the top story windows that occupy the walls of this flat (you too can gaze if you look at the picture posted above!), some much needed laundry-doing, and just an overall celebration of everybody’s company.
Tomorrow we must leave our friends here and make our way down to Italy! We leave in the afternoon to ride a train down to Munich, and from there we will get on a bus that will arrive in Rome after a brief 13 hours! It will be a very pretty ride, so I’m sure 13 hours will fly by. And that will be about the end of my travels, and it will be the absolute end for CJ’s, unless you want to count his 13 hour layover in Dublin as another destination. CJ did eventually get a temporary passport in Berlin, but found out that it would be awfully difficult for him to obtain another India visa without applying from the United States. So, on November 30th, I will fly from Rome to London where I will spend one day and two nights with a friend and make my way back to America on the 2nd, and on the 1st, CJ will begin his way back to America as well and Henry will proceed on to India! It’s strange that the end of our collective traveling is so near already, but we still have Rome to take in and enjoy as our one last hoorah!
I hear the clinging of pots and pans in the other room, so I’m going to go see if I’m hearing things or if I can’t lend a hand and help prepare this feast. Again, have a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your weekend!

November 24, 2011
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“To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

“To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

November 19, 2011
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CJ and Henry perform American Classics, Part 2:

November 18, 2011
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CJ and Henry perform American Classics, Part 1:

November 18, 2011
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Hello!

It’s been a while! How are you? Great, me too.

I post this blog from Kiel, Germany! Where we have been doing an even mix of relaxing and activity for the past 5 days or so. If you went to Willmar Senior High School in the 09-10 school year, you probably remember the beautiful German exchange student we had that year, Nicola Weißer (used the ß key right there, btw) and it is her and her family who have been so gracious as to open up their home to us since we arrived 5 days ago. They have let us sleep on their floors and couches, use their television to watch movies, play insane solos for hours on end with no stopping ever on their guitars, fed us a few delicious meals,  taken us to the beach, and a whole of slew of other activitys. But, as with all things life, this must come to an end. That end will come at 4 a.m. tomorrow morning when we board a train that will take us to Berlin, where we will go spend some time in the US embassy trying to get CJ a brand-spankin’-new passport! Fun, right?! I did not mention this in our list of activitys, but while were here, CJ misplaced his bag filled with important belongings in a department store. We scavanged, CJ talked to some mall security higher-ups, but to no avail. We dialed some phone numbers, and CJ eventually found himself making an appointment at the US Embassy in Berlin at 9 a.m. tomorrow where he will hopefully acquire some sort of temporary passport that will allow him to leave the country. Assuming that that whole ordeal doesn’t take an entire day, we will then board another train that will take us to Leipzig, Germany where we will be staying with another friend! I would love to upload pictures of here as well as Amsterdam for all of you to see, but navigating a computer that works in the Deutsch language is difficult, and Nicola has already been kind enough to let me sleep on her couch for 5 nights, and I don’t want to make any difficulty by changing her laptop’s language. Just be patient, maybe I can give them all to you as a thanksgiving gift. Also, because this computer speaks Deutsch, every English word I type appears misspelled and recieves the harsh red underline signifying a typo. So, if there are typos lying somewhere in here, I do not know about them, I cannot fix them, you cannot get mad at me, reader.

We’re watching Princess Diaries right now and I’m tired of switching my attention between this computer and the television, so it’s goodbye for now! We can do dinner when I’m in Leipzig or something.

November 16, 2011

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