posted on Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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It's been a month since I got home and I still haven't finished unpacking my bag. Is it because some part of me is sentimentally clinging to the traveller's life, the freedom and adventure? No - I think I'm just being lazy.
I have been busy though - I have almost a years worth of TV to catch up on! Plus I have started my new job - I'm already 2 weeks of training into it. I've had this job lined up for me for over a year and a half now. The interviews seem so long ago. And in many senses ...
posted on Thursday, 11 March 2010
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So first I tracked down some family I had in the area. Granted they're distant relatives who I don't think I'd ever met (or even heard of before last week) but they were still family. Home cooked food, a nice bed, privacy. Just one slight problem - they lived in New Jersey. And the bus ride there actually cost more than my two previous bus rides put together. But they were friendly and kind - a couple in their sixties whose kids had already moved out and I stayed with them for the weekend.
posted on Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Plane rides to me are always dead time. You don't see anything, you don't really do anything, you just leave one place and arrive the next with no recollection of anything happening in the meantime (if you're lucky at least). My flight home leaves NYC late at night and arrives in London the next morning (well, afternoon and Dublin). Life is always filled with dead time - time where you don't really have anything you want to do (or have to do) and you just spend it waiting for something that y...
posted on Tuesday, 09 March 2010
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I survived my first flight for five months, although I didn't enjoy it. Plus it gave me a new name to add to my list of companies not to fly with - Spirit Airlines. They didn't set the best first impression by changing my flight date a couple of weeks beforehand. 10 phone calls and US$80 later and they never even told me why.
It was lucky that I had left a few days spare between the end of my holiday and Maccu Picchu or they would have really annoyed me. So to make up for it they woul...