AJ Jumps The Pond 2017

[ajgoestoeurope]

(not my video)

Doing some reminiscing about my trip, so I decided to look up vids on YouTube from one of my favorite places I found, English Garden in Munich. I swam down twice.

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A friend of mine asked me to make a collection of all the pictures of doors I took throughout Europe to give to a family member for Christmas. Whipped this up a few days ago.

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Wandering Youtube today, I decided to go looking for footage of the Village People concert I attended at Paradiso in Amsterdam, and sure enough, there I am. White bandana, bottom left of the screen!

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Finally got to see my cousin tonight and give him the shirt I picked up for him in London. It's a bit big, but he'll grow into it!

[ajgoestoeurope]

Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.” It’s nostalgia for studying abroad that one semester. Travel is realizing that “age thirty” should be shed of its goddamn stigma.

- Nick Miller

[chipthekeeper]

I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective 

[thegoldengals]

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

[chipthekeeper]

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

[liveaslove]

This makes you a Village Person. Embrace who you are.

[american-hedgerows]

Road trips are the equivalent of human wings

Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. - Victoria Erickson

[goodreadss]

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

C.S. Lewis (via goodreadss)

[ajgoestoeurope]

Shout Out to AndreaMosaic, an awesome program I’ve been using since high school. Its a free program that makes epic photomosaics like this one. The main image is a pic I snapped at the Berlin Wall, and it made a photomosaic from all the photos from my trip.

Find it here, they make an awesome program!

https://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/

[ajgoestoeurope]

Spending July & August 2017 backpacking Europe, then moving out to BC for the winter. Travel blog can be found here: ajgoestoeurope.tumblr.com/ . Photos uploaded as I travel!

Trip Photos Now Posted To Deviant Art For Purchase!

If there was a particular photo you wanted a print of, message me with a link to the post I featured it in, and I will make sure it makes its way to my DeviantArt!

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Link To Flickr Trip Album

Can Be Found Here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm3nueW3

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Been up since 4:30am (thanks jet lag!) so i’ve been going through photos. Here’s the rough, probably final, album of my trip.

AJ Goes To Europe 2017 by BurnTheOil

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Well that couldn’t have been better timing. My “Back In Regina” post last night was my 300th blog entry!

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Back in Regina, will post updates when I wake up. G'night world!

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My home for the next 9 hours. Calgary here I come!

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All checked in at London Gatwick Airport, through security, and had a delicious breakfast at one of the restaurants. And a .gif of a sushi restaurant with some cool LED bubble stick lights. Next stop, Calgary!

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Not sure if I ever posted this, don’t think so, but this is the tattoo I got a few weeks before leaving for this trip. It’s on my right arm, on the inside. I got it there cause it’s my hitchhiking arm. It’s started so many conversations during the trip that it’s been completely worth it. I plan to get a few more tattoos once I get back to Canada, ideas I got throughout my travels.