Up And Running

Interest may be slight, but I figured that I would host some sort of running collection of what is going on during my months away.
A few weeks ago I was in Grand Rapids visiting a friend and took up a rideshare over Craigslist to make it back home. David was the pilot, and, painful as it was, he nominated me co-pilot. He spoke languidly of his various trips to Europe; sleeping in caves on the coast of Spain, sharing wine with his wife and cousins in Normandy, taking holidays in small, quiant villages in Italy, and asked if I was going to have an email newsletter going out to inform people of my activities. I think I have an uncle who sends those out...
The answer was no (sorry, David), but I am going to post current goings-on here from time to time, whenever my path crosses that of an internet café, hostel with wi-fi, or a host with a computer.
My itinerary as of this evening is quite bland, so I won't bore you with all the details. The basics are as listed:
I depart the Amtrak station on Sunday, October 4th, at 2:50am.
I arrive in New York (barring, of course, any unseen delays; my last Amtrak experience was far from pleasant, after a 12 hour delay and a complimentary Subway sandwhich, which I proceeded to picked all of the meat off of) at 6:30pm, spend two nights there, and fly out of JFK on Tuesday, October 6th, at 5:45pm. I arrive in Düsseldorf, Germany...later. To be honest I can't decipher the arrival time in the e-mail confirmation - the only pain I have found so far in purchasing airline tickets through German-based companies. That and the fact that I don't seem to have a confirmation/booking number...
Maybe I won't make it to Europe after all.

Until next time,
Luke