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2 Weeks to go
well......haven't got alot to say just yet...... apart from.....eeeeeeeekkkkk :)
getting Supper excited now as its only 2 weeks until the 5 of us go away!!! still got a lot to sort out, thank god Christmas shopping is canceled for us this year!!!
This cold frosty weather is making me crave the beach even more now......
We have done Thailand a few times ...
God saves the cream tea!...en el sur de Inglaterra
... cerca de nosotros… panties rotas, mohicanos, tatuajes….creo que nosotros éramos los extraños… Siguiendo con las cosas extrañas, la playa era de piedra…si, de piedra, era de ripio!!!!... bueno, no era tan malo, no te llenabas de arena, pero era como pueden pensar… muy dura!... otra cosa que nos llamaba la atención, era que no hacía calor, pero la gente estaba en traje de baños y bañándose…. igual era frío, ...
Steadily Closer...
... and where I want to go.
The hire the car or bike idea went out the window somewhat, £3K to hire a Harley for a month I thought was extortionate. Turns out a company in Overton, Hampshire can organise shipping and insurance for your own motorbike. So now its looking like £500 to ship it to NYC, about £300 for the insurance and £700 to ship it back from LA. Gives the freedom that I wanted, idea for route now (and pretty much planned ...
Prologue
If you are all sitting comfortably I will begin. After 5 **** years sweeping floors, counting tents, deploying on 1 day exercises, checking stores and working with a strange American douchebag, I took the bold, unfamiliar and slightly scary step of leaving the greatest organisation that has ever existed: GEOOOOOOOOOO!! Now, that is actually a slight lie, I enjoyed large parts of my time in the Army – mostly the times spent on leave, the hours on ...
Customs
... and people movers, it still doesn't matter when you have slept less than 2 hours and are surviving on airplane food. Ugh. It was the longest 1/4 mile of my life, and I didn't even know that that part to get to the train(which at least the lady at the ticket vending machine was nice and wished me luck and compliment my necklace) was the easy short jaunt of my day.
Good thing I worked out all summer.
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