When my plane arrived at Heathrow this morning I was frozen to my seat, too afraid to move. I had to give myself a mini-pep talk in order to gather up enough courage to get off the plane. It was a good thing I was a bit jet lagged because I don't know how I managed to make it through the day if I'd had complete control over my faculties. I might have had a nervous breakdown in the middle of Trafalgar Square. The good news is... I love London! I had tried...

This all began over a year ago on a long drive home from school. My friend Hannah and I were having one of those ?deep? conversations about life and the meaning of it all. Somewhere in the conversation the topic of travel came up and we both talked about how much we wanted to travel and about how we would love to go to Europe. We sat there dreaming for awhile then the thought came to me, ?why don?t we go?? Why spend you life dreaming about what you want to do, wh...