I love Backpacking!

Ok, i am having so much fun visiting all these cities and seeing all these sights, but truly my favourite part of backpacking is the people. I have met so many people I can´t even imagine. I´ve met people from every continent on Earth (sans Antartica), every country in Western Europe, almost all 50 states, every province and territory in Canada (except the Maratimes, not sure why) it´s unreal!!!

It´s cool because right away you have one thing in common, your travelling. So starting a conversation is easy! Where you from? Where are you going? How long have you been gone? It´s unbeliveable.

We are at a wicked hostel in Madrid (called Mad Hostal) and I had the greatest day yesterday. Both Elandri and Elise are major art buffs which isn´t really me so we split up for the day. At breakfast I met some Americans and we went and saw all the sights then they left and I met another american and two mexican girls along with 3 americans stationed in Germany just here for the week. So we started playing Asshole (the card game) up on the roof of this hostal (yes the roof isn´t that cool) until it got dark. Then we went back downstairs to the huge common room and bar. And we just kept rounding up people. The beers were cheap (3euro for 1liter!!!) and by the end of it we had 15 people playing Asshole. We had Americans, south Africans, italians, a japanese girl, a jamaican, a brazilian, two mexicans it was the coolest thing ever. Then we just all got up and tried to find some local bar down the road until they closed. Just so cool.

So yep, life is buenos! I gotta run to catch my flight to Milan. I´ll write more about what i actually saw here in Madrid later

Logan