Forest Gumping it

Here we go, another adventure. The money is spent, the flight is booked, and I am pumped.
London has been really good. Incredibly stressfull and expensive in more ways than one but really good. I recommend Nick at flight center as the best travel agent ever, the service he gave was incredible.

For those of you thrill seekers out there I have a new crazy ride for you to try. First off break your arm (not compulsurary) then get a bike in London and try to keep up with a local cyclist during rush hour. The rush was unreal almost as good as sky diving. K gotta go

yup still in London

This has been the most stressful two days of the last few weeks and its still not over. You see I am trying to go to New Zealand right and well unless I stay in London for a month it costs close to 1000 pounds for a return flight from here. That was impossible for me so I went a found a deal where for 1150 pounds or 2400 Canadian I can get a round the world ticket that stops in Hong Kong, Auckland, San Fran, and then London. I really liked the sound of that cause then I can go to Canada and still have a flight to London paid for. Anyhow the only reason this is stressful is cause of money, my card doesn't want me to have it, and New Zealand might not let me stay as long as I want to. But I'm gonna go for it anyway and hopefully by tonight I'll be on a plane to Hong Kong.

Anyhow here's a quick story. So last night I was just gonna relax and maybe read a bit. Well shortly after getting into a good story a guy from South Carolina was like hey you wanna go check out this lookout point and I was like sure, why not. So we hiked off through the streets of London to find this hill that supposidly has a really good view. We had walked for quite awhile and finally arrived at the park where the spot was supposed to be but were wondering what view we were going to have cause we still hadn't gone uphill at all. Sure enough as soon as we got into the park there appeared a hill. And the folks weren't lying about the view it was awesome. London at night looks pretty amazing. Sorry this story was mostly anti-climatic. Oh right before I go I just wanna say I love you to my Grandparents cause I missed mentioning them on the last post but don't worry I haven't forgotten about you.

hmmm

the last person i talked to was from seattle, unless you count the british people who work at the hostel. the last food i ate was peanut butter and bread. one loaf of bread was 80pence which is about 1.60$ canadian, peanut butter was about the same price but i had the whole jar already and a small jug of milk was 35pence. so today i spent less than two pounds on food but that was to try to suppliment the cost of the hostel which was 25 pounds last night and 18 tonight. to convert to canadian just double it. according to ads in the windows a ticket to NZ is 639pounds, hopefully i can get a last minute deal or something. my bike is locked in a luggage room. oh yeah holly was wondering how i broke my arm. its kinda embarrassing it was so very very stupid i was rolling from one bowl into a deeper one and i was trying to be smooth and nosedive but the roller was way too steep and i nosedived to flat and went over the bars and stuck out my hands and broke my arm right at the wrist joint. and i know nobody will understand that but phil so its a good thing he's married to holly so he can explain. speaking of phil and holly, hearing about them renovating and generally improving their lives makes me want to get going on mine, to start working on something that will last instead of just working to earn money and then travelling to spend it. ah well hopefully my life will slow down in nz and ill be able to work again and get a routine back. ok i have 6 min what should i say. Mom and Dad I love you guys very much and Melissa you too and my Aunts and Uncles and cousins. Thanks to Aunt Renetta for keeping my parents up to date while they don't have a computer. Oh and mom could you pay that hospital bill, ill make sure to pay you back. and my friends, i miss you tons especially the ranch friends right now. bye then

London eh

Wow computers that speak english are so handy. I understand the warnings and questions now and don't have to guess about whether or not i want to delete everything. I arrived here yesterday and already europe has taken more, a lot more, of my money. Ah well London is nice, I biked to all the main spots today and was a tourist. This broken arm makes being anything besides a tourist out of the question which is kinda annoying but probably keeping me out of trouble for now. Oh and I went through the channel tunnel yesterday and it was spectacular....okay its not that, its actually really boring and i think i slept through some of it. tomorrow i will try to get a ticket to new zealand and hopefully i can leave before london takes me for all im worth. I'd put up pics but i don't think i have time at the moment. well actually i may but ill type some more first.

ok on to more structured dialoge. my time in germany was remarkable. i have never felt that at home that quick anywhere so a huge thank-you goes out to max and mareike and svenia and everyone else. i miss it already even though i am sucking up the english here like it's candy. the thing i miss the most about germany is that i had just figured out how everything works. i knew where to buy cheap food and beer. i knew streets and places and some phone #s. me and trains were becoming very good friends and there were soo many good looking people everywhere who wore clean clothes and smelled nice. stop laughing, go to france sometime and then go to germany and you'll notice the difference. ok maybe i shouldnt pick on france too much. i did get to know a nice french train man who very nicely bumped me up to first class on the way to london.

sorry i just looked in my notebook for some ideas about what i could write and while waiting in hamburg i wrote three pages of random, at times angry, then spaced out, then strange, gibberish. im a nutcase, it's guarenteed. so there's a bunch of people who want me to email them personally about whats happening and hopefully these sketchy blog updates are enough. although if you email me questions well then i have to reply. so i'll try to think of some questions to answer and then post the answers later.

sorry no words and click on the pics to see the full versions

pics from Rügan

white cliffs taken with special camera features
tree lined roads
sunrise over a field of grain
beach
same beach different angle
castle/hotel
park at the castle
view from the lookout point
another park pic

blogger sucks (today at least)

Well, I was planning on putting up a bunch of pics with captions and stories and such but it took half an hour for these three pics and its making me incredibly angry. So here you are, three pics of me and my cast that werent released until now because I wanted to tell my parents personally that I broke my arm but instead the French hospital beat me to it by sending them a bill. Oh and the first two are from the train station in Avignon when I still had the half cast (hard on top soft under my arm) and the bottom one is with my German plastercast.