Reunion.

List of my latest locations...

Alacan, Spain

Barcelona, Spain

Cerbere, France

Paris, France

Frankfurt, Germany - met up with Steven S

Strasbourg, France - with Steven

Luxembourg, Luxembourg - with Steven

Brussel, Belgium

Gent, Belgium

De Haan, Belgium - viewed the North Sea

Blankenberge, Belgium - North Sea again only because I slept through my stop to Brugge

Brugge, Belgium

Antwerpen, Belgium

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Utrecht, Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands

I love traveling Europe.  I know its been a while since I last posted but stopping to sit on a computer other than to couchsurf is always time consuming and usually money consuming as well.  I am sorry.

Still, time is short. I've been sitting in one of the greatest libraries I have ever seen right here in Amsterdam for two hours sending out couchsurfing requests for my next locations.  It can be hard work sometimes.

Anyway, looking at my updated travel list, you may notice that I shot quickly across Europe from Barcelona, Spain to Frankfurt, Germany.  After struggling to find a train out of Barcelona since so many tourists come out during these months, I had to make my way to Frankfurt to meet Steven Schultheis.  In Frankfurt I found Steven leaning up against a post in wait of my arrival and I burst into tears of happyness and everyone in the train station started singing a Geman welcome song.  No, that all didn't happen but it should have because I was in unbelief to see a fellow American friend waiting for me right there in Germany.  It had been a long time since I came across a friend I've known longer than a few days.  After we met up, we quickly got to business with our travels.

Frankfurt probabaly wouldn't be the top recommended places to visit on anyone's list but its a good place for business and school.  We quickly headed to Strasbourg, France which is an amazing place and then Luximbourg.  Yes.

I have a new travel buddy!  Inma Borrella.  Steven and I met her at a couchsurfing party down in Strasbourg, France.  I found out she was traveling north along the same rails as I planned so when I was in Gent I was able to meet up with her.  Together we visited  the last places on the list and she had to leave for home.  As is common though with Eurail or Interail travelers, the train was full to get to her school home in France so she is actually stuck in northern Europe.  Turns out, its cheaper to buy a five day Interail pass than to buy a single way ticket back to her apartment so she, being an adventurous traveler, was forced to buy five more days of travel by train within Europe.  Life is crazy.

Now our plan is to head up to Kobenhavn in Denmark for tomorrow.  After that we go check out either Goteborg or Stockholm in Sweden.

Eurail is winding down for me.  With my Eurail pass expiring in about ten days I'm still exploring with full energy wasting not a day.  I love the adventure and the experiences I've already had and it will be sad the day it is over. When my train pass expires I'm planning on doing some volunteer work as an organic farmer down in southern Spain.  Who even knows what's going to happen...