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June 25, 1998 This journal has been brought to chronicle my journies through this world, particularly this to Europe as it may be the farthest extent of this world that I will ever see. We started yesterday, my friend Barbara Milton and I, on this outrageous trip -- Europe in 3 weeks. Actually, we've cut it down to Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar in 3 weeks. This is my dream trip. . . . Let me start to describe our trip, but I warn you, I don't really feel like I'm in a foreign country yet. Yeah, things are weird, but things change as one goes from place to place. As I was saying, we started yesterday, in the town of Duff [TN]. We packed, Barbara lost things, Barbara found things, we left, Barbara remember things which were left behind, we continued without them. We were dropped at the airport in Knoxville, left to fend for ourselves. We checked in, then searched for food and a bank. $2.80 hot dogs were not on our menu, so a snack machine curbed the hunger and there was no bank. I called Mom and Dad and tried to call David [my friend], then convinced Barbara to go to the gate and wait. We waited . . . . and finally we boarded. I got the window seat in our 737 to Chicage. At Chicago we ate dinner (better than $2.89 hot dogs, $4 mini pizzas), I finally got in touch with David, we waited, then boarded. On our 777 to London, I had the very middle seat in our row (2, 5, 2) and Barbara started in the seat to my right. . .then moved to the aisle seat when no one claimed that seat. Oh, I forgot to mention that in Chicago she had to go smoke. . .and when coming back in, forgot to pick up her $15 and keys to her luggage after going through the metal detector. Anyway, on the flight we had a German and a Dutch flight attendant who translated important announcements for speakers of those languages. We had about 5 channels for video (The Apostle was the movie) and about 20 audio channels. The dinner they served was good, but they kept interrupting my sleep with announcements and food and drinks. We were also served a continental breakfast. It was okay. |
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