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Published: January 6th 2013
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As what the title states, today is a Travel Day, Jan 5th 2013 to Rome, Italy.
Why hello there! This typed stuff is the full Blog today, no Handwritten stuff! Well holy coq, I madr my 10:30PM Cruise ship from Barcelona to some port city in Italy that starts with a C and has about 15 letters after it that I can' t pronounce. I was surprises to find that I was literally the only pwraon in the while ship of around 100 people that spoke english! I thought I would be meeting other travelors, but there were a lot of famili
ies and couples that wete mostley from Spain, Portugal, Italy and sone from Japan.
It was super beautiful walking the deck at night, I lovethe peaceful tranquility of starring into the deep dark ocean at night in ships and contemplating life and stuff. Sleep fibally caught up with me, because to my Surprise, extreme surprise, I woke up at 3:45PM!!!!! That means I slept for 14 Hours!!!! Over 10 hours passed myaverage on the trip! After waking up, that marked a little less then 3 houra until we arrived in Italy. After I woke
up, I walked around the very windy deck, got a bite to eat and enjoyed the book I bought from Paris until I watched the sunset.
Then, aftwr arriving in Italy,I realised that I was trying to speak Spanish on the ship to a bunvh of people who o ly spoke Italian! Lol. Anyway, I needed to somehow find a bus to Rome whwn wvwryone working spoke only Italian. I ovwrheared a fellow travelor speaking English and said he was going to Rome. I started a conversation with him and it was an Aqesome decision!
The dude's name was Edward and he was from Quebec Canada, and said I could take a taxi to Rome with him for free since his qork was paying for it all!!! He was super cool, and found out he was thee IT guy who is putting on the Michael Jackson Tour that is going for all of 2013!!!! It was super intwresting talking ro gim, learning how the behind the scense goea to obe of the Worlds largest shows, and he was just starting the tour.
I was super envious of his freedome, this was about hia 5 year traveling the
world for work, where he has been ti around 50 coyntries, and gets to vacation in all of them on his days off. Waaay more exciting then a 9 to 5 job spening your whole like in one place with o ly 2 weeks of vacation a year, never getting to see all the places ge has been. I was super envious of his life, not to mention that his job paya first class for everything ge does! For his entire time, he gets free first class hotels, taxis, train rides, meals, tours, you name it, flights, etc. Probably the greatest bnifit pachage ive evwr heard, also including health plans. He only works on average 4 days a week, so the other 3 daya he travela the country he happens to be in for free, and every month or two gets 2 qeeksvof vacation free to do as hw pleases!
Anyway,it was super cool meeting him and got dropped off at his Hotel whwre the receptionost gave me dirwctions the my Hostel called Tge Yellow. U said my goodbyea oyet again an Awesome peraon I met along my journey, meeting people I never would othwrwise meet back home, and
Handwritting the previous Blog!
On the Deck over looking the Ocean took a 10 minutes bus pkus 5 minute walk to my Hosel where I quickly passwd out for the day. I plan to che kout all of Rome, thwn potentially go to Florence o see the Satue of David and then possibly take a tour to The leaning towere of Pisa!
When in Rome,
-Chris
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