We Gathered In Spring

I've spent the last week in my own version of Vacation Planning Hell. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed this Hell immensely, but every small detail about this trip has begun to consume my being. When I get home from work, I go to the hostel website and compare. Or I go to a travel website and look at Tips (oh, I love those tips.) Or I talk with one of my compadres on the trip about the trip, where we're going, and

Today, on my day off, I went to the travel/adventure store and bought all sorts of random accessories (accessories are right up there with tips) and just spent the afternoon trying to figure out minute details.

I've received my Eurail pass by FedEx, and I think it's about time I had a vacation... From planning my vacation.

Wish me luck.

It's Rolling

I've finally booked my flight to London. Up next on my travel planning agenda is:
+contacting all of my British friends
+planning a route
+purchasing rail passes
+acquiring supplies
and
+LEAVING.

I fly to London Heathrow on April 24th.

Also, stay tuned to my photoblog site (http://renataphotographs.blogspot.com), as I will be posting a couple updates (photos from my trip to Texas!).

Keep it real, dawgs.

So Begins Our Alabee

College Station, Texas
6:20pm Central
Wednesday, March 14th 2007
Thunderstorming rain

You're my only softness, you're my only pleasure, it's true
And I never want to be your little friend, the abject failure.

I Still Remember

I am continually stunned by how quickly time passes. I resolved to make a post every week, at the very least, and I've failed myself already! It's still been puking snow here in Calgary, every day filled with fluffy snowflakes that get caught in my eyelashes as I walk to work. It's March now, and I'm crossing my fingers and shaking my bum and hoping that the weather will clear, I'll have good luck when I go to Houston on the 11th and get some sun, and that I'll be able to find the answer to my various dilemmas. I hope the answers will come to me in my sleep.

I leave for Houston in just over a week to visit Ashley, who I love like a sister, and I can't wait for the vacation from work. I'm just so tired all the time. I need to be refreshed somehow. I need something new, and exciting, something new and exciting that I can't buy with money. Believe me, I've tried. My store has started getting in tons of fabulous spring clothes, dresses and shorts and tanks and cute wallets and oh, I can't even begin. The short of it is that these things give me hope. And oh, I need hope.