The long plane ride really helped to settle my nerves, by the time I reached Frankfurt I was feeling much better. I've realized that I can't turn back the clock, so I shouldn't waste time being scared or nervous.  Athens has been surprisingly easy to travel around. The Greeks take great pride in the fact that most of them speak not only Greek and English, but at least a third language as well... Because it is so easy to communicate I have to...

Here I go again... When I set out on my first journey I didn't realize how much the experience would change me. Now, over a year later, I am just beginning to comprehend how different I have become. In a matter of hours I will be in a strange place, surrounded by strange people, with no one to rely on but myself... and I am scared to death. But I know that I put myself into these "sink-or-swim" kind of situations on purpose, because I absolutely ref...