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Memory: Trucking Along
Date:
Fall of 2004
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Amsterdam Netherlands
Memory Category:
EuroTrip 2004
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TheMemoryCrawler
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Trucking along

2004-10-08 | Cologne, Germany

Today I woke up at 8:30 and wasn't even tired. I said goodbye to Maika and had breakfast. But today I had to check out so spent my whole morning organizing my stuff, showering, doing laundry and checking the internet.

I did a little last minute souvenir shopping and also had the idea to go to Cologne Germany next to see the Bascilla (huge cathedral) that I have been curious about. Really nothing interesting became of the morning and I wound myself in the train station jumping on a train to cologne at 1 PM.

On the train I met some Scottish people and talked with this girl Nieve a bunch. We talked a lot about Scotland because I had so much fun there. It was a really great conversation (as usual... everyone is interesting here). I arrived in Cologne and had one of the nicest welcomes ever! I walked out of the train station and viola! The grandest cathedral yet, listening to a trio including a violinist, an accordionist and some classical base guitar thing playing some most recognizable classic tunes. I just sat down for a minute and basked in the beauty of this. I did this while mapping out where a possible hostel is. Once they finished I left and two minutes later my stuff was in the bed.

I went to the common room and met a new guy Dan. Dan is from Dallas and he is here taking a semester off school living it up just like me. We talked for a really long time. Then we grabbed food and ate in front of the Dom Cathedral. We wandered after that and spoke mostly about how we are feeling right now in this trip. We both are finally realizing how much we have our trip under control, how we are so lucky to be out here, that this is a once and a lifetime opportunity, how right here and right now this is the only time we can ever take a trip like this, and other great topics of conversation. Basically this conversation motivated both of us to basically adopt and reaffirm a carpe diem attitude for this trip. Live life like it is the last day of your life. And here in Europe it seems so easy to live it up to the fullest (yet a cold is coming in my body so I will continue to take it easy). I am so glad I didn't come home early I would of regretted it my whole life. I will come back broke of cash but full of experience. So I will just keep truckin along. Imp not even exhausted yet!! HA... I know you are jealous!
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