Friday, June 11, 2004
Europe Prep
Well, I'm currently uploading the Macintosh version of the Ultima 5: Lazarus Remake. A good friend of mine from school, Ian Frazier, has been working on this for quite a while. In fact, I remeber the early days of Lazarus. The project was dreamed and created while he was living in Purdue University Housing. Good old Wiley SW 455. Now it has grown from it's humble beginings to a multi-national scale. I'm proud to at least contribute a little to a project like this, and especially to be able to help out with the Mac version.
The actual point of this post was supposed to be about the planning for my Europe trip in a few weeks. I've decided that I'm a bit crazy when it comes to planning certain things out. It is hard to imagine that I can be the same person that has a room that appears to be in a total state of disarray when I organize this much for a trip. Somebody once stated that I was "The most organized disorganized person" that they knew. I take some compliment by that. :-)
The travel calendar homepage for the Europe Trip is here. I will update this one last time soon with all of the hotel information. I just got in my backpack that I will be using. It is an Eagle Creek New World Journey. I think it will work pretty well for my needs. It's not too big, yet I think it will fit everything. We'll see if I can fit everything in later. I also have a new pair of New Balance shoes and a new pair of Chaco Sandels to wear. I'm trying to wear both of these as much as possible to "break" them in.
I guess overall, I'm just hoping that the trip goes well. I don't know if this is going to be one of those stereotypical "Go and find yourself" backpacking through Europe or not, but I do hope that I'm exposed to different cultures and people during the trip. I'm going to try to practice what I've read from Rick Steves in his book about France. He advocates a strategy where a traveller tries to join and meld with the local culture. His so called "Europe through the Backdoor" policy. I hope to not be the stereotypical loud American tourist that eats at every McDonalds in the area. If I find myself on the way, then so be it... :-)
The actual point of this post was supposed to be about the planning for my Europe trip in a few weeks. I've decided that I'm a bit crazy when it comes to planning certain things out. It is hard to imagine that I can be the same person that has a room that appears to be in a total state of disarray when I organize this much for a trip. Somebody once stated that I was "The most organized disorganized person" that they knew. I take some compliment by that. :-)
The travel calendar homepage for the Europe Trip is here. I will update this one last time soon with all of the hotel information. I just got in my backpack that I will be using. It is an Eagle Creek New World Journey. I think it will work pretty well for my needs. It's not too big, yet I think it will fit everything. We'll see if I can fit everything in later. I also have a new pair of New Balance shoes and a new pair of Chaco Sandels to wear. I'm trying to wear both of these as much as possible to "break" them in.
I guess overall, I'm just hoping that the trip goes well. I don't know if this is going to be one of those stereotypical "Go and find yourself" backpacking through Europe or not, but I do hope that I'm exposed to different cultures and people during the trip. I'm going to try to practice what I've read from Rick Steves in his book about France. He advocates a strategy where a traveller tries to join and meld with the local culture. His so called "Europe through the Backdoor" policy. I hope to not be the stereotypical loud American tourist that eats at every McDonalds in the area. If I find myself on the way, then so be it... :-)
