I figured I'd get this journal started even though my real travel won't start for 6 months. To some extent or another, I've been planning this trip months already, maybe parts of it for a year. All the random google searches on Eastern Europe would create itineraries in my head and the more I read, the bigger the map became. At first it was just "I really need to see Prague. Everyone says it's gorgeous." And then I would see something about Budapest, and wow doesn't that look beautiful? If I do those two places, Krakow makes a nice little triangle of cities, doesn't it? Then I start reading about Romania, well southeast of my current obsessive google subjects. But the more and more I look into Romania, I become so enthralled I consider scrapping the
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