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In two days my two best friends and I leave for the biggest adventure of our lives. I can't believe it is finally here! I am SO excited and giddy, but also a little nervous. I think it's a good nervous though. It's the type of nervous where I have butterflies and will be on my toes, but it's not fear.
We have dedicated over seventy hours into this trip, between hostel researching, locations we want to see, and how to get there with the trains and then how to get to the sites and hostels from there. Thank you Google, Hostelworld and EuRail for helping us execute this to a T. We have no idea how people did trips like this before the internet, because even with Google it was hard!
We're going to be on the move! Most likely we will be sprinting to catch our trains, spending at most two nights in some locations a backpack (see photo above) is the most logical way to carry our stuff. Twenty three days is a lot of days to live out of a backpack...Especially when we are going everywhere from the beaches of Croatia to a slope side town in Switzerland. Also we want to look cute in all of these places and in our pictures- those are forever!
I have spent the past three days on the floor of my apartment with all of the stuff I want to bring all over the place, as if a bomb when off. Prioritizing things, like oh I definitely shouldn't skimp on underwear to bring a cute outfit, or should I? Or other big life questions such as, do I really need to bring a sweatshirt? Or how many layers is too many layers when going to the airport? Uncle Barry do you think layering four shirts will make TSA suspicious?
The packing list:
-5 pairs of underwear (it's an Uncle Gerry vacation!)
-1 pair of socks
-1 bathingsuit
-flip flops/Keds
-2 t-shirts
-2 tanktops
-1 jean shirt
-2 scarves
-1 sweatshirt
-deoderant
-a few travel sized soaps- we aren't really sure how often we'll be showering so we also bought babywipes- yay! Sailor showers!
-1 pair of jeans
-1 pair of leggings
-1 maxi skirt/1 pair of flowy pants
-1 romper
-1 fedora
-1 raincoat
-padlock
-microfiber towel
Hopefully all the mementos I will want to buy are pieces of jewelry so I can wear them, since my bag is almost full...
Wish us luck!
Al
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Uncle Wayne Be careful, I love the Uncle Gerry comment. I'm sure you'll bring back some great memories