travel, travel, travel

1st DC for a while. That was cool- the hotel that I stayed at the Chinese President had a big dinner. Talk about Secret Service, it would take me an hour to get to my room, had to be escorted several times, even saw him arriving from my window. It was a zoo- protesters everywhere.

2nd Philly. FUN. Lots of excellent food and wine. I need to write an entry about Philly’s amazing restaurants. I met up with not 1 but 2 of my ex-boyfriends there.

NOW I’m in Connecticut visiting my grandmother. I haven’t left her house since Thurs., except to go the beach and take long walks. It’s just been a really relaxing time. Today we’re getting manicures and pedicures then going to yoga- woo woo- girly bonding time!!!

And from here?????

Either NY this weekend THEN back to DC or just straight back to DC.

The past few months I’ve been doing a lot of east coast traveling. Was in Atlanta for 2 weeks, then DC, then NY, then back to DC, then back to NY, then to Philly and THEN to NC. Whew. I got burnt out… that’s when I wrote my entry of being tired of so many things.

So, now I’m in NC at my dad’s just trying to regroup. It’s getting to be time to leave again though. I’m so mad because I missed my flight to Miami recently… Now I don’t know where I’ll be going from here. HOPEfully Miami though!

God, it’s about time too. I was supposed to go 2? weeks ago. I’m a tad apprehensive because I am pretty broke and am unsure where I’m going to stay. Hopefully with my friend Shane and his boyfriend.

I leave tomorrow and have done NO packing yet. If you read some of my other goals/entries you will see that I despise packing, always put it off until the last minute, and end up packing enough clothing to last a year.

To make matters worse, I went out last night and had Too Good of a Time and really don’t feel so great now. Not in the mood to pack.

There’s a chance I’m being jerked around. I don’t know yet. Talked to him yesterday and he said he can’t book it until Mon. because his secretary is out of the office until then and he is “lost” without her.

Ok. I’m not the most patient girl but whatever. I just hope he’s not f*cking with me. I don’t like that in people.

Again, knock on wood. I exchanged emails with Vlatko and just got off the phone with him. I will know tomorrow about the ticket but he’s very serious about me going. And I’m crazy enough to go. He asked if I would mind missing Christmas with my family. Of course not! Family/Smamly! Don’t take me too literally, I LOVE my family to pieces and I would miss them. But come on now!

I don’t know if my dad’s keen on Vlatko. They met once and my dad went on about how well-spoken and intelligent he was. He never once mentioned the age difference, 20 yrs.- but he was worried because both Vlatko and I have very strong, explosive personalities and that maybe one day we’d clash. And that’s how we broke up. Is my dad smart or what?

We’ve always had fun together though. And Australia for a week or so? Woo-Hoo!

Nov. 24th I leave Miami to go to NC for a week. Thanksgiving with the family deal.

Dec. 2nd-4th Philly for the weekend.

From there either NY or DC, depending on which friends will be where. I’ll definitely go to both places, just not sure of which one first.

AND THEN. I don’t even want to jinx this. If you’re reading this please knock on wood. I sent out a random forward yesterday to a bunch of people. My lazy way of letting them know I’m alive. My Macedonian ex emailed me back. We chatted a little last night. I forgot how fun and outspoken he was. Next thing I know he says, “So, you want to go to Melbourne mid-Dec.?”. Uhhhh. YES PLEASE. He’s crazy like that though! Not even a week we had dated when he invited me to Australia (2 years ago) for Formula 1. And stupid me turned him down! I was broke at the time and even though he told me in no uncertain terms that wouldn’t be a problem I still said no. I won’t make That mistake twice. Who knows, I probably just jinxed it writing this!

Prague is really amazing. Unbeleivably gorgeous. I have lots to write but I´m still on a shitty computer.

I´ve been sightseeing during the day but the majority of the trip has been ¨´Prague Nights´´. I had a mezcal night, and I got the worm! Go me, I ate the worm!!! Isn´t it always just the little things in life that make us happy! Mezcal is SO much fun… it´s a more trippy sort of drunk.

And I finally tried absinthe. Oh GOD. NEVER, ever drink absinthe after you´ve already been cocktailing for several hours. Not smart. It knocked me on my ass. And that´s saying a lot because I have quite a high tolerance. I was not a pretty girl that night… Yes, there are pictures but I´m scared to see them.

I´ll be so excited when I can sit down to write a proper entry. This trip has been so different from other times I´ve left the country. I´m not used to getting 4 star treatment in every way (thanks to Luis). Lots of observations about the people here… I´ve been writing down all the names of places I´ve been, already a long list. What I REALLY want to do and what would MAKE MY TRIP would be this:

http://www.pragueexperience.com/places.asp?PlaceID=1075

AK47s and M16s!!!

I leave early Sun. morning. The only day I could do it would be Sat. I get off just thinking about it. LOL, my exboyfriend Luis refuses to come with me, he thinks I´d shoot him! No, no, no… we´re actually getting along quite well.

and it is unbeleivable…no offense to paris… but damn

WILL WRITE MORE WHEN ON A DECENT COMPUTER

PS. DID NOT EVEN HAVE A GLASS OF WINE ON THE FLIGHT, PROBABLY THE 1ST TIME EVER, AND I WAS STILL SO JETLAGGED

I leave THIS Friday the 23rd-Oct. 3rd!!!!!

AGGGGHHHH! I’m SO excited. This is all so unexpected! It’s going to be amazing.

My side still hurts which I’m a little worried about- but #^@*! it! I don’t have a temperature and there’s no way I’m not going!

WHOO-HOO-HOO!!!!

I will take lots of pictures-

Well, after spending 12 hours travelling Friday (missed 1st flight to Tampa) I didn’t get in until 1am. Then I left 1 of my carry on bags in the cab from the airport to the hotel. Whoop dee do, right? Wrong! That bag contained TONS of pictures and probably 15 different sets of negatives, most from some of my favorite trips. IRREPLACEABLE. So I was pretty sad about that. Then I couldn’t sleep so I ended up missing the photo shoot with the big cats (isn’t it fun to say ‘big cats’).

Had a GREAT night last night- went to South Beach, had dinner, did some tipsy shopping, went dancing. Then my friend David met up with me after he got off work. For some reason I had it stuck in my head that we HAD to go to a dive strip club. Now THAT was fun, it was definitely an ‘unfortunate’ club. And I did refrain from getting kicked out (that has happened).

But today I woke up with this insane pain in my right side. I’ve been to the ER for this 2x in the past 2 years and they bcan’t figure out what’s wrong. It really scares me. I mean, this is PAIN. It feels like someone is constantly stabbing me. I did have a temperature earlier but it went down, so that’s a good sign. I CANNOT AFFORD to get ill.

And I should be jumping for joy- I have my flight to Prague booked!!!!!! Prague is definite! I leave from Miami this Friday night and I’ll end up being there for 9days! The only reason I’m not ecstatic is this constant pain. It better go away b/c I CAN NOT miss out on this trip. And I’m the kind of person who never gets sick. The last time I was 11yrs. old and I had strep throat. So please pray for me!!!

Hurricane Rita. What a time to visit Miami! I’m staying right on the bay, as in 8 steps and there’s the water. It is coming over the wall already, I just hope it doesn’t flood. I think everything will be fine. It’s just the next day or so the weather’s going to suck.