Terrific, Terrifying Travel

[squeakywheel]

In case you were wondering about my safety and if Leon and I took his fifty-something parents to the Seattle zombie rave as we had planned on our original agenda (Space Needle, Underground tour, party like the undead), we did not go and are all just fine. We went to the Sci-Fi museum instead

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rave shootings..

[anonymous]

How did you hear about the zombie rave?

Re: rave shootings..

[squeakywheel]

Honestly? I heard about it through jameth's journal. He's my source for everything Seattle.

But soon after that I saw it on the news. Fox news to be exact.

Re: rave shootings..

[anonymous]

He has the shooter as his icon.

[terrible_fish]

When I was in Paris, we read a short story that spoke of the "getting to know a city" and it went on to say that you can never really know a city until you've been bored there. I agree, but it's sad because how often, can you spend enough time in a city to be bored?

[squeakywheel]

That's interesting; I've never heard that. If that's the case, I guess I'm hoping that I don't get to know any of the cities in Europe. :)

Leon thinks you need to be a resident there for at least a month, which I guess would almost certainly include boredom--at some point. Of course, I've been here for almost two years and I'm constantly discovering new things about the Bay Area.

[grybai]

Four countries in 10 days is pretty quick, but 3 of them are pretty small countries and they are all pretty close together, therefore cutting down on some travel time. I've done Europe quickly and done Europe slow. For a first trip I think going quickly is actually better because you get to find out where you want to go back. :)

I recommend trying to determine your priorities. What touristy things do you have to see and what do you want to skip? Pick a few things that you'd really regret not doing or always wanted to do and try to do them early before things get crowded. And then just try to leave some time to wander and talk to locals.

Also I always bring some tylenol pm to help me sleep on the plane and train.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll have a blast. The nice (yet sort of sad) thing about Europe is that everyone speaks English so its really easy to get around and communicate...

[squeakywheel]

Instead of tylenol pm, I have dramamine and clonazepam. Wow, those knock you out fast!

Thanks for all of the pointers. You have no idea how helpful these are, although the fact that I quoted dogofthefuture months after he made that comment might give some indication. ;)