On the Road Again!

Here we go!!!

Yes, I've only been home from my visit to Montana for four days, but when opportunity knocks, one must answer!

And when someone asks, "Do you want to go…."

My answer will be YES 99.9% of the time. I'm like a big dog who loves car rides; you don't have to finish the sentence before I have a bag packed and my passport in hand! I'm ready to go, and I won't slow you down!

Wednesday I am flying to London with my friend who is going to visit a niece who is studying abroad for the semester.

When I was in college, I was desperate to study art in Italy. I researched a semester abroad, but the cost was astronomical. I didn't speak Italian, and the credits would not have transferred back to the states appropriately, resulting in my spending an extra semester in school. It just wasn't feasible, BUT I found a work abroad program. After graduating, I flew to London and worked in a London Pub in Camden Town for three months, saving my paycheck under my mattress each week, literally.

I had so much fun living and working in London during those three months. My roommate, Maggie, in the flat above the pub was a woman my same age from Warsaw, Poland. She was there to learn English. We were thick as thieves within days. We would dance at a 1980s music club down the street every weekend. We wandered the streets of London at all hours, seeing as much as we could see. On our days off, we went to the theater in Soho, took day-trips to Paris via the Chunnel, and took buses to the countryside.

At the end of my three-month work visa, I traveled for a month by my twenty-five-year-old self through France, Italy, Poland (I stayed with Maggie's family for three days), Belgium, back to London, and then onto Scotland for a week before returning home to Montana and a GIANT credit card bill. It took six months to pay off those three months, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat!

On this trip, I plan on revisiting the pub where I worked and some of my other favorite spots in London.

I'll post as often as I can!

Until then - happy adventures to all!