I will be traveling this summer!  I plan to visit Denmark, Germany, France, England, and Belgium over a month, traveling sometimes alone, and sometimes with friends.  I loved keeping a blog on my last extended trip, for a study-abroad program, several years ago, and want to do it again this time.  Looking back at my blog from my Oxford experience (http://crazyormediocre.blogspot.com/), I feel quite intimidated—at the time, I was reading extensively and writing regularly, both for myself and for my professors.  Now, most of my writing is either private journaling in a notebook, which I rarely so much as read back over myself, or Facebook-style posts, short one-offs that can’t possibly do justice to the capitals of Europe.  Hopefully having this blog will motivate me to work on improving my writing so my travels’ chronicles are worth looking back on.  

I will not be carrying my laptop with me, so updates will be spotty while I’m on the trip, but I will handwrite essays in a blank book to transcribe upon my return.