July 4, 2009 – 12:32pm (France Time)

First and foremost, HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY everyone! I hope everyone has a great holiday and I wish I could be in America right now celebrating with you all. I’m currently on the Eurostar train traveling from Paris to London. This train is supposed to be really cool because it travels underwater for about 30 minutes as it transports you from France to the UK. This is the tail end of my trip and I’m truly beginning to wind down. The past few days I haven’t really done much but veg out in my hotel rooms from Amsterdam to Paris. My body is telling me that it’s time to relax. LOL. I have been to 7 different countries and 9 different cities within the last 5 weeks. London, Leeds, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Paris, Rome, Porto Cervo, and Cairo….I came, I saw, I conquered and did my dirt all by my lonely, LOL. At this moment I’m just taking it all in. My inspirations, my emotions, and my thoughts are vying for their prospective places and I’m waiting for them to settle. I don’t think I will truly realize the significance of what I’ve done until I’m in my room in America, lying alone in my bed looking up at the ceiling. It is in those secluded moments that I do the most reflecting. And oh, what I have to reflect on now! I should be reaching London within the next couple of hours. I’m not sure if I’m going to party it up this last weekend abroad or just chill out. I guess it depends on what my body feels like. I think that one thing that I’ve learned on this trip is patience. I started this journey as a giddy boy itching to see and do everything and ending it as a confident man who believes what shall be will be. This is a trip that I will reflect on for the rest of my life and I am now positive that when I die the words ‘regret’ and ‘impossible’ shall not exist within me.