http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea uncut, unedited Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:54:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I first arrived in Slovenia, I was unimpressed and growing more pissed off by the minute. I didn't know where my hostel was, I didn't know what bus to take and I couldn't find a taxi. I finally did find a taxi in an obscure place outside ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/week-3-slovenia-part-a.html I'm going to save the little sliver of dignity I have left and post only a sample of Oktoberfest. At about 10am in the Hofbrau beer tent... Some time after 10pm back at Camilla's apartment... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/oktoberfest-visuals.html I forgot to mention an observation I made at Oktoberfest while I was sitting at a table with 5 Danes, 2 Swedes and a German, so here it is...  I had the darkest eyes at the table!  So odd that my olive-green/amber eyes were actually the darkest there.  I guess ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/week-2-budapest-and-croatia.html Ok, so the cold is on its way out, no pnemonia, deafness, blindness, brain infections of any sort, although I have gone back to having weird dreams of my grandmothers flying away in planes without me, volcanoes erupting in Fiji, going on a date to see a really bad play ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/747.html So, drinking many liters of beer over the course of 4 days while jet-lagged kills your immune system.  I now have sniffles, sneezes, coughs, and a bit of a fever, and I'm dreading that little dry cough that is slowly becoming wetter like a bronchial infection in the making.  We shall ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/ugh.html Camilla has said I write EVERYTHING on this blog.  Well, let me say this... imagine: 1 American girl, 5 Danish guys in Leiderhosen sitting at a table in a tent full of drunk men.  I have stories to tell, just not today. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/oktoberfest.html Woah, woah, woah... After so many months, the travel junkie is on the move again! Just so we know, I've finished my degree; I've chopped off all my hair; I've been living in my mum's house in Maryland over the past month, and although I love her very ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/travel-junkie-on-the-move-again.html You may not know this, but I fell in love when I was in New Zealand.  His name is Tim Tam.  My Danish friend Camilla introduced me to him.  He was always there to provide his wonderful double-coat chocolate comfort when I needed it, which was just often enough to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/the-london-tim-tam-adventure.html Here I sit, four months away from graduating college, speeding headlong toward yet another transition and some very difficult decisions. Why do I hesitate when you ask me where I'm from... let me list my geographic history. What I have to say may seem depressing, but hopefully some ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/army-brat-blues.html For anyone not from the US, or, more importantly, anyone from it... the United States government established a program in 1960 to serve the country in the mission of international peace. I know, I know, I frequently hear the stereotype while abroad that the United States' agenda is anything ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Drea/peace-corps.html