To just pick up from last time...
My “flight-buddy” was a guy from Sweden. I never caught his
name, but he was pretty awesome. I had the window seat and he sat down first so
we had the awkward
‘bumping-into-everyone-trying-to-stow-bags-and-not-knock-anyone-out’ dance. On
top of the people directly behind me being the people that had the seats directly
behind us (and not wanting to wait >< ). He and I laughed a whole bunch,
especially when the guy in front of me kept moving his seat when I was
re positioning my in flight TV thing! He also told me to check out the amusement
parks in Europe, but to not expect anything like the US’s
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| The view from my window, while we were leaving the US. For the first few hours I thought it'd be brilliant to get a photo of my last glimpse of the States, then I remembered that the pictures would be hard to see. |
I guess
it’s really obvious that I’m an American traveling around. Perhaps it’s my “oh
God what have I got myself into” expression, but several times people who had
been speaking German with others swapped to English with me. I was pretty glad
at the time, honestly, but now I wish I would have responded auf Deutsch. Oh
well, next time, yeah?
My first thoughts when coming into
Europe was that there were a whole lot of pine trees. At least they looked like
they were pine trees. Seriously, those things are everywhere! I also thought it
was really cute that, when I looked down, you’d see lots of clumps of buildings
surrounded by what looked to be farmland. I guess when I heard that there are
so many people in such a small space, that I assumed that all the land was
taken up by houses and factories. (I’m glad that’s not the case, btw!)
Other things that I noticed was
that the rivers looked different than I’d expected. I made a note of several of
the major rivers that we passed in the US and thought it looked kind of funny.
They all are pretty spike-y with lakes throughout, whereas here it looks like a
giant just took his finger and drug it through Europe. It’s symmetrical
looking, even when it bends. I guess I’ll have to take a picture to show you what
I mean.
In all honesty, my journey isn't
over. At the time of writing this I’m in the Frankfort airport with a now 4 hour layover. (Our
flight got in early). We were allowed 30 minutes of free wifi so I jumped on that pretty quickly. The first thing I bought when I got over here was a coke
and some risen. Very…adventurous, haha. A big part was I wanted to compare what
I know these things to look like with how they look over here. I can say I was
kind of disappointed that I didn't get a mycokerewards code under my cap, haha.
I don’t need to be lugging down my suitcase with those, anyway.
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| My first purchases, as I'm writing this |
I can’t find the USO, though, which
is kind of frustrating. Most people don’t seem to know what it is, and I don’t
know what it stands for. Even the information kiosks seem to be at a loss. Oh
well, I’ll look like a super hipster kid and type on my laptop in this terminal
café place. Haha
‘til next time!
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