Prologue

     Today is the beginning of my journey across the pond! I have been keeping up with Morgan's Jackson Hole blog all summer and have decided to make one myself as a personal chronicle of my travels to London, Paris, Rome and everywhere in between over the course of the summer. I am now sitting in the Charlotte, NC airport as I await my next flight which will take me to London. Already the trip has been filled with adventure: my first airplane ride, my first airplane ride alone...you get the picture. For anyone who has not been fortunate enough to have a five hour layover in a major airport, you have certainly missed out. There are so many people to watch, so many languages to interpret, so much activity! At this moment, I am eating a cheeseburger and drinking a coke with lots of ice as I watch a troop of army men singing with the airport pianist. I will certainly miss America.