The End.
Tom's last real blog post.
Well, that time has finally come. At 4:00 today I’m boarding a bus for the Shannon airport. Tomorrow, early in the morning, I’m hopping onto a plane and flying to Barcelona. Shortly after that I’ll be in southern France, then spend another night in Barcelona. After that, I’m coming back to Galway for about a week, little more, to say goodbye. Walk these streets I used to own. Then I begin my five week nomadic trek through Europe before finally arriving back in America around June 6th.
The thing is, I’m going to be packing light from here on out, and I am most definitely not bringing my laptop on the nomadic trek. The way it’s going to work is that I’m bringing my laptop to Barcelona with me, then giving it to my parents to take home when they fly back to America. So, after I leave Barcelona for Galway, I will not have a laptop. I will have access to computers, sure. Brian will be around for awhile, and I’m sure he’ll let me borrow his laptop, and the school has computers I can use, and there are internet cafes, and Maggie has already explicitly told me I can use her computer when she’s in class, so I can access the internet. However, it’s going to be a lot more restricted and rare. Even in Barcelona I don’t think I’ll be on nearly as much. I’ll try and keep up with e-mail and Facebook, though, so if you need to talk to me I can respond.
However, the time has finally come for me to end the blog. My semester is over, and with the significantly reduced access to the internet I just don’t see it being practical for me to update the blog with the lengthy and complex posts I’ve been trying to do all semester. I’ll still post occasionally as a way to tell people I’m still alive; I’ll try and make a post whenever I reach someplace new to say that I reached there okay and so people know how my journey is going. Similarly, I’ll update my Facebook status with wherever I happen to be at the time. And, if I get the chance, perhaps I’ll do a long and thoughtful post. Then again, I like the idea that I’m done. These are hard sometimes!
So, I guess this is it. Thanks for reading, I really appreciate it! And thanks to all of those who left me so many comments—it was a pleasure to log on and see them. I hope you all enjoyed. I did.
So long.
Slan!