Year: 2008

Not suprisingly Rome was in my top three trips all semester, if not right next to Switzerland. The week was on the way, we were all waiting to depart from Gaming. On November 7, 2008 we boarded the buses for

This was one of my most anticipated yet least prepared trips in my whole european experience. Before I even decided to go to Austria, I had always wanted to backpack by myself in the Black Forest, one

I slept on the train for the first time in a while and we got to Thessaloniki. We left the train station and, according to custom, immediately began exploring. We found out the stop and bus we needed to get

In the morning of Thursday my eyes were hurting I needed to get my contactsout, and I began to feel the same plumbing issue as before. We arrived in Athens and it seemed to take forever to dock the

As we left Turkey on the proudly Greek ship we stood on starboard side near the bow looking over into the water and watching small rocky islands slowly pass by. I can see so many of the myths written

I woke in the morning again experiencing the surreal sunrise in a foreign land. I felt like I was very close to being in Israel or the middle east like you always see in pictures…and that in fact is because

Once we arrived we were drivin to the airport from the plane on a shuttle and ended up in long line for Turkish visas which were 20 YTL. We soon nicknamed these Yittles just like the SKK in the Czech

When Friday came along, John Paul, Brendon, Ali Decker, Kate Donnely and I hopped on a train to Vienna for our first Ten Day break. We went to Sudbanhof station which had a creepy blinking eye clock and got some

Besides Rome, without a doubt Switzerland was my favorite place in Europe. Maybe it was just the particular place we went, but it was like heaven on earth. When I was doing research for this trip, the quote going around