Revised Itinerary

Hello world!

We have revised our itinerary. You can see it below! Rachael used some of her cool stage management skills and made a nifty calendar with dates and travel plans. We’re still trying to sort out our transportation for while we are over there (trains vs Easy Jet) but we’ll get it sorted out soon. 23 days to go!

Potential Itinerary
London
Dublin
Edinburgh
English Countryside
Amsterdam
Brussels
Paris & Northern France with Dan
Berlin
Prague
Vienna
Munich
Switzerland
Venice
Florence
Sorrento
Rome
Cinque Terre and Northwestern Italy
Monaco
South of France
Spain

Potential Itinerary?

Here is the first draft of our itinerary. All material is subject to change :)



In other news, Mr. Daniel Dansby will be joining us in London 2 weeks into our trip! Who's excited? We are!

Our new favorite travel quotes

We were looking for a good quote to use as our signature from our new email address and we found lots of really good ones. Enjoy!

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” –Freya Stark

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” –Jawaharial Nehru

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins

Look out, Europe!

What's up, World?!

Katie and Rachael are going backpacking in Europe. We leave February 22 and we're pretty much going all over. Check back here as our adventures unfold. First stop: London!

See you later!

K&R