I'm down to 2 weeks. In exactly 14 days from now, I'll be on my way to the airport. I've been anticipating this trip for so long, and today is really the first time I've gotten the jitters when thinking about it. Huzzah! All my lodging is booked. All my flights have been purchased. This is becoming more real... I tend to get ready for this trip in short spurts, like a fixation for a few hours, and then go back to doing my normal thing for a few days. Yesterday was one of those short spurts. I booked a couple of my ground transports. The first was a shuttle from LGA to JFK. I've got 6 hours between flights in NYC, so I figure that's plenty of time. The second was my AndorraBus from BCN ... read more

I hope that the countdown is functioning properly - I'll be leaving for Europe in 3 weeks from today, on March 12th. Here are some observations I've found while booking flights and accommodations for 11 weeks in Europe. The website skyscanner.com is amazing! I have looked for and compared flight prices on other sites, and this one is the best, hands down. If you know of better ones, please let me know, because if there's anything better, then I would love to hear that. Norwegian airlines has easily the best prices for transatlantic flights. Nobody believed me when I told them how cheap it was! Granted, I've never used them, and their customer reviews are barely above average, but I don't have any connecting flights, so I think I'll be ok. I'll make any comments ... read more