The Adventure Begins

Today a new adventure begins, and I couldn't be more excited. This time tomorrow I'll be in Heathrow airport, eagerly waiting to board a flight to JFK airport and explore New York, one of the greatest cities in the world (allegedly). It will be my second trip there, but I undertook the first when I was 3 years old, so that doesn't really count. I'm going to subside solely on pizza, cheesecake, and shitty American piss-beer, and my goal is to perfect my caricaturish Yank accent.

Bizarrely, I have much less anxiety about the journey now then I did a couple of weeks ago - my worries of being depressed and bringing my fellow travelers down have evaporated, and now I suspect the opposite is going to be true. I am ready to be inspired by the places and people around me, and I think it has potential to be a transformative experience - at this point I can't wait to get on the plane.