Tuesday, June 26, 2012

“That’s Original”


Today, I went to Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy a few things for my upcoming trip to Europe. When I told the salesman, “I’m backpacking through Europe this summer,” he replied with a very cheeky, “Well that’s original” and laughed at me! I was not too pleased, but I quickly brushed his sarcastic comment off when I thought about what “original” really means. Dictionary.com offers the following definitions:
1. belonging or pertaining to the origin  or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time

No matter what others may have to say, based on the above definitions, my trip is most definitely original, even if just for me! Mackenzie and I are SUPER excited to see what I’ll discover, learn, and experience along the way.

For those that I have not told yet, our current travel itinerary is as follows:
Berlin, Germany – 2 days
Frankfurt, Germany – 3 days
Munich, Germany – 3 days
Italy – 7 days
Bled and Ljubljana, Slovenia – 2 days
Vienna, Austria – 5 days
Bratislava, Slovakia – 1 day
Budapest, Hungary – 5 days
Krakow, Poland – 5 days
Prague, Czech Republic – 4 days
Berlin, Germany – 4 days

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