Scotland is Next!

So I throw myself back into blogging. What a difference a couple of years makes. I am now gainfully employed with two part time jobs, and I think the hubby may be landing a freelance gig starting tomorrow. We're paying off our student loans, and I'm planning on backpacking in northern England and Scotland either next August or the following one. I just have to see how fast I can save up the money, and not be distracted by other shiny objects... like a purple Sig.

I'd like to go the lake district too if I can manage it. It seems that there's not a whole lot of public transportation there though. I'd like to see how much Roman ruins I can fit into the trip. 

I need to finish transcribing my journal from '09 and put the one from '12 on here as well. I just haven't gotten around to it. Maybe this weekend...

My name is...

Hi, my name is Tonya and I'm thoroughly addicted to backpacking.

Unfortunately I don't have a trust fund and haven't won the lottery yet, so I can't go very often. I decided to start this blog as a way to make the journal I kept on my last trip public. I'm going to start posting it now, and the dates will be made to match when I wrote the entry back in 2009. It will be just as I wrote it, except I will correct for spelling and grammar and there are a few things I may redact because they're personal.

I will also use this blog as a way to plan where I might go next, hopefully next year. I'm thinking of starting in Nice. I need something to plan for, something to look forward to. I'm currently unemployed, and instead of waiting for me to find a job, I figure I'll start planning anyway. I like traveling on the cheap anyway.

Journal Entry: Stateside still

Foreword: The following is a transcription of my journal by date from a backpacking trip I took in 2009. From May 13 to June 6 my sister and I traveled from Rome, Italy to Paris France, where she left and I continued on to England.

13 May 2009
12:30pm

I had meant to write this morning before I left Corpus but forgot. Right now I am sitting and waiting for British Airways to open their check-in. I was way too early, but that's okay. Better early than late.