hey there,

I left on Friday morning from Anchorage to Minnesota where I literally had to run from gate C to gate F to get to my next flight that was within minutes of closing the door to my LONDON flight. So my travels started off with quite an adventure in itself and off I was to LONDON. After an 8 hour flight I arrived in the GATWICK airport, just 40 minutes of a train ride away to central London. I had 9 hours to chill out before I was to get on my next flight of 11 hours to the Johannesburg airport.

Well being that I am a pretty adventurous person and love to meet new people I was off to buy my all day train pass. It cost me 10.50 pounds which adds up to be about 21.00 us dollars, not bad considering I can use the underground transit system that they have. WOW it was amazing!!! I took the train to Buckingham Palace along with hundreds of other people who were on their way to see some sort of event that was going on there. From there I walked to BIG BEN ( the huge tower with a clock on it), and from there I took another train to the National Gallery where I got to look at the original artwork from artist from way back, such as VAN GOGH. That was pretty much what I did while in London and it was so worth every bit of the traveling, especially because I was alone there was no worrying about where the people you are with are, and there was no one to hurry me to the next destination.

Later Saturday Night I got onto my last flight to Johannesburg, the only way to describe the feeling of being on the ground would be STOKED, because after almost 30 hours of sitting on a plane and having nothing to do I needed to get off and walk. Now so here I am in the Johannesburg airport, a some what sketchy place and I am waiting for my luggage. After about 20 minutes I see one of my bags and I am exctied because it made it through, well I wait and wait and the people around me start to leave and I still havent received my other suitcase that happens to have all my clothes. Well I come to find out that my suitcase was still left in LONDON and the next flight from there to where I was wasnt until Tuesday so I would have to wait 2 days for my clothes to get there. Thats just another one of the adventures that I have experienced since leaving ALASKA less than a week ago.