The First Post

Hello my lovely readers, k.g. here. This is my very first post in moichroiinthenorth, which is Irish Gaelic for my heart in the north. I'm extremely excited to begin this blog about my travels in Northern Ireland. My flight leaves tomorrow afternoon (3 hours to New Jersey, 7 more to Belfast, yikes!), and I will return on May 17th, hopefully along with some more worldly insight and perhaps a new appreciation for potatoes.

Packing for this adventure is a little ridiculous. How is it possible for one's life fit into a 3x2 blue box with wheels? I'm not sure how I accumulated so much stuff throughout my 20 years, but it really is difficult distinguishing what's important and what I simply "might wear". All in all, I'm ending up with a giant blue suitcase and a decent sized backpacker's pack. Woot!



The past few days have been filled with some final tasks including calling the bank to reassure them the individual charging things to my credit card in the UK really is me, saying a few goodbyes, planning my packing, and making a few purchases to simplify my travels. I think my favorite addition is my new webcam, which was oddly easy to set up. My skype name is "kgski5", so if you have skype (or are planning on downloading it, hopefully!), make sure you look me up and add me as a contact!

One more thing before I depart. Of course Brittany, I didn't forget about this(and hopefully you didn't either!):



"you cannot discover new oceans
unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore."

Ciao for now!
-k.g.