Day 1

Well I just said goodbye to my folks for six months. It was much stranger than I imagined it. Its one thing to leave home and go back to school when you know that home is only an hour and a half away and a weekend at home is a possibility at any time I should so desire, it's an entirely different beast to say a straight up goodbye for such a long time. I guess this is what it must have felt like for my folks when we moved away from Edmonton.

I board my plane to Detroit in a little over half an hour and after that point there really is no turning back, both metaphorically and literally. Then its three hours in the air, an hour in Detroit, and then roughly a seven hour flight to Heathrow.

When I land I have to go through all that fun Immigration stuff and with the security breaches both here and abroad over the last few weeks I'm sure that will be an experience in and of itself. Hopefully all will go well and soon after that I will be trying to figure out the London Tube.

Apparently I will have to take the Piccadilly Line from Heathrow Terminal 4 Station to the Leicster Square station which will take roughly an hour. Then I switch to the Northern Line and take it to the next stop on the line, the Tottenham Court Road Station, a minute long ride, where my ride ends. Then its just a short tree block walk from the station to the St. Giles Hotel in downtown London.

Then it will be time to crash in a bed for a while.

After I send a "I got here fine" email to a few folks, my parents included.

Well I'm going to pack up and get ready for this...here we go.