Back Again

My apologies for slacking on the blog. It turns out internet cafes were harder to come by in Ulster than in the other regions, and I ended up spending most of the trip in the north. I'm already back stateside (and thus have very little excuse except for being busy - and lazy - these past few days for not updating you all since I returned). But in order not to overwhelm you, gentle reader, I'll just post an entry a day with excerpts from my travel journal to jog my memory. And cause not too much spectacular has happened since I arrived home, so at least now I can stretch out having something to say.

In the meantime, though, I want to thank all of you who have reached out to me in support these past few weeks - I've had tons of emails and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. There were certainly parts of the trip where things just, well, sucked, or I was lonely, but it was helpful to know you were thinking of me. (And just to reassure you, I was doing much better by the end of the trip - I think I did indeed successfully reclaim Ireland for myself, so get ready for St. Patrick's Day and don't excpect me to substitute the phrase "just takin' the piss" with "just kidding" just yet.)

Oh, and while this has only a little bit to do with me having a good time in Ireland, for those of you wondering if you correctly read between the lines in my last entry, well, all I can say is it's not all bad being single ;)