Currently four days away from saddling up with my pack and taking off on a ultra-super-budget flight, and my emotions are fluctuating somewhere between:

A picture I call “Skydiving (scared)”, and;

A picture I call “Skydiving (happy)”.

At this point many to-do lists have been completed, my backpack has been successfully practice packed (in truth stuffed to the brim), and my arrangements and reservations for the first two weeks of the trip have been made! I start with a couple of weeks in France- specifically in Paris and Angers- before flying to Milan. Et je ne peux pas attendre d’aller en France !  me manque la langue française beaucoup, et j’ai hâte de rencontrer mes amies Annie et Carrie ! et manger des galettes (toujours manger des galettes).

To anyone and everyone who’s helped me reach this point I say thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

The next post will be written in Paris!