travel blog
I leave for my big trip to London exactly three weeks from today! I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am, not only to go to London for my third (and longest) trip, but also to escape the miserable Texas heat for two and a half weeks. I have my whole trip planned
With all the excitement building up for the Olympics in London this year, I thought I’d write about my second (very short) trip there. The first time I went was in 2007, and I was smitten. (So smitten, I applied and was accepted to grad school there, but put it on hold for financial reasons.)
I never had a huge desire to go to London—my misconception was that it was so similar to the United States that it wasn’t worth a visit any time in the immediate future. By the fall of 2007, it had been a year since my first international trip and I was desperate to get back