Hello, world! Here begins the account of our journey to eight* great European destinations...

Tomorrow's the day! We're set to depart from Houston Int'l Airport at 7.55 p.m, and we're due to land in London some time around 11.00 a.m. on the 1st. There's so much to do, and have we done it all? 'Course not. But hey...sometimes you've just got to know when to go.

Naturally, we've hit our fair share of pre-trip snags. I went to the trouble of ordering us two International Student ID Cards for the sake of getting a discount on our railpasses; yet predictably, I forgot to order the railpasses themselves. Looks like it's gonna be p2p (that's point-to-point) for us! And Katie, in an effort to edit the details of our stay at the duly popular St. Christopher's Inn (i.e., hostel) in Paris, actually cancelled the entire reservation.

So in other words, we are about as ready as we'll ever be. After all, if we were any more ready, it wouldn't be a bona fide European adventure, now would it?

No. It most certainly wouldn't.

Until next time!

-- Sean

*Katie would like to inform you all that we are technically traveling to a total of five countries and seventeen cities (give or take a few). I insisted on sticking with the number eight for no reason other than my utter inability to come up with a title that didn't include some lame reference to a current pop culture phenom, and she'd like you to know that. That is all.