Back to life

Feeling more lively today. I hate feeling lost like I did yesterday.

Now, I'm just trying to figure out a plan for the next 2.5 months. "2.5 months in Europe" you think. You think you have tons of time. Throw in that you want to spend a month in Portugal, and one month (after the two weeks I will probably spend in Turkey) is what you have left. There are people to visit in that month, and other places I'd still like to visit. It goes without mentioning that I WILL be shopping before leaving Europe. Depending on something going on in Seattle, that something will probably have me returning to Seattle then to take care of some stuff. This will put the kibosh on my Prague teaching [perhaps] plans...at least for the immediate future. If I go back to the US in July, then my tentative plan is to work my bottom off, save wads of cash, then return to Europe. Slumming from one hostel to the next, meeting cool people and seeing the sights is now 'normal' to me, and I'm loathe to give it up.

So, my goal today is to try and figure out a non-breakneck itinerary (though, I fear Portugal will become a two or three week trip...) and to work on some of the mysteriously lacking-until-now fiction writing.

It was a bright and sunny day...