A week from now...

I'll be flying to London to work for an African museum during the start of my longest trip away from home. I'm writing this blog to keep friends, family, and anyone interested informed of my travels as well as to satisfy my tremendous appetite for writing, especially when it regards travel! If somehow down the road I happen to become the second coming of Anthony Bourdain (in his current days as a travel writer/world food sampler of course...) then you can proudly say where you heard from me first. However, as my name will most likely not live up to that ambitious stature but only in my dreams, I just hope you enjoy reading my posts as much as I'll enjoy writing them.

I'm terribly nervous for this next year of my life but also extremely excited to face the challenges of living abroad. I hope to travel to, live in, and experience many different places across the world during my life and this will be the start of one of those personally profound, life-changing, eye-opening experiences.

London is a city that I've come to love over a long series of extended visits. I'm fortunate to have a lot of family there (cousins that I consider brothers and sisters) along with a British passport that makes me feel super badass when I get to skip the longer lines for foreigners in those crowded London airports and travel like a true Brit. Although I've never worked a summer in London before or experienced the craziness of the Olympics in person, I feel as comfortable and at home in London as in Florida (credit to my family and the english language) and am thoroughly excited to live with my extended family (whom I don't get to see nearly enough of) and get to know London from a different perspective...that of a young, independent working man, rather than a boy on vacation who had the fortune of relying on a large family for anything in this massive, cosmopolitan city.

A week from now I'll get to continue to explore this great city that has so much to offer everyone. Do I feel comfortable and love it there? YES....Do I know what this summer and beyond will be like for me? NO...and thats just the way it should be for this young adventurer. Talk to you guys later, from the other side of the Atlantic.