Introduction

Hey.

I need to get out of here for a bit and travel.  I've been cooped up in my room for the past weeks, studying, learning, growing, talking, and lastly, healing.

The plans as of now are still rather broad - but in stone - to go to first Bulgaria, then head towards Israel by taking a rather skewed "detour" by going to Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.  I hear stories that people need Visas, I read stories saying people don't, so I'm going to take the risk and go without a Visa.  The Visa from Syria to Israel will be the biggest "experience", I hear they "interrogate" you for two hours, asking you questions on what it is you're exactly doing traveling from Syria to Israel.  I don't know about you, but I have got a knack for educated risks.

I shall visit a friend or two in Israel, and by the means of www.Couchsurfing.org, I shall arrange to "live" with people throughout this journey.  That goes for Morocco too - after Israel I'm flying to Morocco, after living in Athens for a day.

For the most part, it looks like this -

Two to three weeks in Bulgaria - the big cities and some small cities
Turkey - a week
Syria - two weeks (need a double entry Visa)
Lebanon - week at most
Jordan - week at most
Israel - week at most
Morocco - Two weeks - set

Of course, all of these besides Morocco have no real time frame, it's just a basis; I'll be able to make due with the time spent there based on how I feel about the place.

So the things that really are set are the entry and leave dates of Israel - April 12 I fly away, April 28th I leave  Morocco.

At the moment, I'm trying to rush everything together; my papers and tests; so I can learn Buglarian and Arabic at a rather intense rate; which has proven to be quite entertaining and beneficial, нали?

So I want to leave Germany at the latest on the 16th of February; just to get the hell out of here and get my mind out of the gutter and grow into He-Man.

-Aaron

P.S. the Euro is messing me up!