"The story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor."

"The story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor."

"The story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor."

-Jack Kerouac

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Preliminary Plans

I know it's a bit in advance, and I haven't bought my tickets yet, but because this trip will be much shorter than my previous European excursions, I want to make sure I see as many of the homies as I can.
I found some uber cheap flights, and I'm going to buy each one over the next few paychecks/if I sell anything.
I won't be visiting Norway or Sweden this time [sadly] but perhaps in the fall when tickets drop in price during the rainy season.

April 13th: LAX-LON
April 15th: LON-DUB [Dublin]
April 18th: DUB-LON
April 21st: LON-TEL AVIV

From there I'm going to spend at least two weeks traveling all over Israel, and stopping off in Jordan for a few days to visit Petra. Depending on where that puts me time/money-wise and what I can find for cheap tickets, I will go from Israel to Rome, maybe stopping in Turkey to stay at the treehouses in Olympos and sleep in the caves in Cappadoccia. Whilst in Rome, if I'm making enough money, I might take a mini trip to France and hit up Paris, perhaps Nice and Lyon as well. That will most likely be last minute, but if any of you Frenchies want to hang out let me know.

I fuond a cheap ticket back, about 250 quid LON-LAX around the third week of june, but that ticket might have to be in a few paychecks.

I hate planning but as aforementioned I want to be as careful with time and money as I can.

My secret to traveling so much when traveling is expensive?
Finding unnaturally cheap flights super in advance [or very last minute depending on the airline]. Flying is definitely the cheapest way to travel to and around Europe-trains are fun but way too much money.

Flying all the time for cheap does have its downfalls; out of the way airports low weight restrictions on baggage,, spending entire days in the airport, and just being at airports in general.

Oh well, you get what you pay for!

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