wow

it's been a while. i've lost a few days but i want to remember what happened! i want to remember every day, or at least put my memories in this locker.

we got back a few hours ago from the great salzburg weekend trip. it was just as Interesting as i thought it would be, but in different ways for sure. this area is so beautiful sometimes i really seriously feel like crying. upon my return, i will be either disgusted with the U.S. (mostly virginian) landscape, or appreciate it in a whole new way. i feel like it's going to be the former, though. i think about the land we passed today on the train coming back compared to the land i pass on my way south on 1-95. we've just vomited up horrible buildings everywhere, everything is so over-pratically industrialized. concrete, grayness, dark green and gray plastic roofs, parking lots, pathetic trees planted out of guilt and not love, asphalt, cars, signs...ugh....

all of the land i saw today made me want to cry it was so beautiful. seriously. i didn't, but seeing the tops towering alps turn into clouds and disappear above that lake was so incredible. i want someone to drop envelopes filled with € into my bike basket as i bike across europe, drinking kaffee and eating semmel mit fleisch und knödel all the time, sleeping in a hammock over the donau in perfect weather. i don't want "Real Life" to happen to me ever. there's not enough time for that.