Decisions

It has come time to decide. Well, actually, it seems more like my decision was made two months ago when I chose not to work. It has now come time to act accordingly. I have purchased a ticket back to Manitoba, by the most roundabout way possible. I will first fly to Kiev, where I have a whole fifty five minutes to catch my next flight, which is to New York City. I will spend a night in NYC, hopefully in the Menno House sleeping. The next day I will catch a flight to Winnipeg, after a layover in Toronto that is. All told I will spend almost seventeen hours in the air, which is utterly ridiculous. But for some reason this winding, lengthy road was the cheapest I could find, even with the night in NYC. And lets face it, I'm not one to pass up a night in the big apple. All this shall come to pass on January 11, with me stepping foot on my native soil shortly before midnight of the 12^th.

Once I made this decision it only made sense to make the most of the time I have left. With Europe on my doorstep (there is a great debate as to whether Turkey is in Europe or not) it would be just plain dumb to not go and see some of it. So the plan right now is to get a 21 day continuous Eurail pass and spend that almost month seeing as much as I can. I have a rough beginning in my head with a wide open end, which seems about right for this sort of endeavour. Bucharest, Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam would make a good little circuit to start with , and once I'm up there it would be a shame not to swing over to Ireland (unfortunately Britain is not included on the pass). From there who knows? I have to be back in Istanbul over Christmas, so between now and then I will go wherever my pass will take me.