Well, I am wearing the grime of four countries right now, accumulated from the last forty hours!  So, recap:  I did King Lear at the Bard's own house- amazing!  Then I had company (thanks Rowena!) in Camden, UK on Saturday.  For those of you who were conserned that Goth would die...

You tend not to notice when something is missing for a while.  Third day in London and for better, or for worse, I have noticed there are little or no:  free wi-fi signals (for Starbucks here you must subscribe to t-mobile- there went $5.50 on a frappaccino-the smallest size!); car alarms;...

Jeremy is a saint.  He took me to the airport yesterday, and did not wring my little neck.  He had a few sparse moments of repreive from me, during which time i was actually combusting internally, otherwise I was as nuerotic as ever- times ten more in fact...finally all of my nervous...

So, I am about to embark on the journey of a lifetime.  Around the world, twenty-one countries and 101 Nights (Thank you Michael for getting the reference), solo.

When I began planning this it was a manageable itinerary.  It somehow ballooned out of my control...my failure to omit anything has...