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Apr. 24th, 2008 04:28 pm
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Perhaps I've failed to mention this, but I'll be travelling in Europe and Northern Africa for an as yet undetermined number of months beginning in late July. I'd like to explore Ireland and the UK in more detail than I did when I actually lived there or within reasonable proximity. I want to see Venice, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Prague. I'll spend some time in France in an effort to make my attempts at croaking out a few phrases in any language other than my native tongue slightly less embarrassing before exploring Morocco, Egypt, and the Dead Sea. Any itinerary I make is to be a skeleton at best. I'll count anything less than aimless wandering as a failure.

I just bought my ticket. I'm not buying a ticket home until I'm ready to do so.

I'll arrive in Dublin. I'll leave New York on July twenty-third, and I'll touch land again around nine-thirty in the morning the next day. I'll spend a week or so in Ireland wandering about. Irish friends! If you should happen to be free at all in the last week in July, may I buy you a drink? You're in Dublin and Cork these days, yes?

As for the rest of you: if I may, I'd like to request that you tell me tales. If there are any places in that quadrant of the globe with which you're particularly in love, anything I should attempt to experience or avoid, any general advice you might have, I'd be eternally grateful if you told me about it. If you lack actual experiences there, I encourage you to tell me fantastic lies that I'll attempt to shape into unlikely realities anyway. I'll thank you if you let me know whether I'm chasing fictions or facts, however. Figuring out bus schedules for real places with the handicap of a maddeningly inconsistent internet connection is quite difficult enough.

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Date: 2008-04-25 01:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-laugh.livejournal.com
Ohhh have fun. You know,if you go to Germany, you could see with Shannon Harrity. She is over there by herself since Hunter is in Iraq. If you want, I can give you her contact info.

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Date: 2008-04-25 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
Wait, Jesus, Mike Hunter? They're still together? And he's in Iraq. Fuck.

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Date: 2008-04-25 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-laugh.livejournal.com
They're married!!! He is leaving for Iraq anyday now.

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Date: 2008-04-25 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
Good lord! That's wonderful, and that's awful. Had they both been living in Germany? What were they doing there?

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Date: 2008-04-25 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-laugh.livejournal.com
Umm they moved there in August. Mike's in the army and he had a choice:
Not re-enlist and get stationed in Louisana
Re-enlist and go to Upper New York
or
Re-enlist and move to Germany (which has one of the best bases.)

They have a cat named Leo. They seem happy, besides the Iraq shit.


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Date: 2008-04-25 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
PS. I am so proud of Shannon for being brave enough to move away, that I love talking about this.

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Date: 2008-04-25 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-laugh.livejournal.com
Ugh, that was me. Sorry!!

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Date: 2008-04-25 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com
Seriously! Good for her. My grandmother was a military wife. She moved five kids from DC to Hawaii, back to DC, to the Philippines, et cetera. My grandfather was off in a submarine somewhere for most of it. They're brave ladies.

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Date: 2008-04-25 03:03 pm (UTC)

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