Ok, so this is my first-ever blog; thanks to Andrew Brown for helping me get it set up! I am pretty much all packed after having made a huge list of everything I am bringing; haven't done such a long trip for awhile; 9+ weeks! I am sure it will fly by, and hope that this format will help me to 'journal' about my trip. The last time I successfully 'trip journaled' was when I was nine years old and spent five months in Sweden with my grandmother. We'll see how this one fares.
My flight is at 3:25pm tomorrow, Eastern Daylight Time; have two layovers in Frankfurt and Munich, then arriving in Tirana, Albania, which is 6 hours ahead of US East coast time. I will be picked up by my longtime friends, Ned and Jorid Spiecker. Ned is a friend from college; Jorid is his Norwegian wife. They have three kids and have lived in Albania for about 15 years. Another good friend, Flutur Nelson, will be at the airport too - an Albanian woman whom I met while living in Chicago years ago - she just returned to Albania last fall - I am so blessed to have friends to welcome me, and will stay in the Spieckers' home for awhile before I get settled in the apartment they found for me.
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