With less than two weeks until my trip to Northern Europe, it is starting to really hit home that I'm going to be traveling pretty far, and quite outside of my comfort zone. A couple of days ago I was not feeling excited at all, but now I seem to be turned around and am itching to go, but I do have some things I need to get done first, such as find places to stay. This is definitely difficult. Finding reasonable places to stay when the dollar is so weak is going to be difficult considering I will be staying there for eight evenings. However, there is a youth hostel in the form of a sleeper train which seems to be pretty reasonable and close to the university. However it appears to be a bit cramped and may stay at the Hotel Ideon for at least the night before my trip, that way I have an entire room to unwind in.

Another thing is plenty of warm clothes. Warm clothes in Tucson are sort of hard to come by and hard to think about when the highs are still in the high 80's. However, I picked up a Peruvian sweater on Ebay made out of Alpaca wool, hopefully it will arrive before I leave.

I think that's about it, but I did find an international student's blog about his current stay in Lund, Sweden. He stayed his first night in the train. Also, with all the pictures he took, I think I may load them onto my iPod for a frame of reference when I arrive since he flew into Copenhagen.

-Trevor