Back from break!

This is just a shout out to let you all know that I'm back from my whirlwind European adventure safe and sound. In the meantime, I have papers due very soon, not to mention work so the pictures and accounts of what happened will come as they may in little segments.
For those of you who don't know, we had March 16-31 off from work and for the first week (16-21) Ben, Kelsie and I went to Greystones to be with the other ISP group for St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, showing Kelsie around some of the historical sites, hiking in Glendalough and other local places.
Then on the Friday 21, we split up- Kelsie to visit friends in Liverpool, Ben to Dublin with Lauren and hiking in Scotland and me to France to visit Devon.
I went to Paris until Sunday morning took a train to Caen in Normandy to see the DDay Memorial and beaches. Tuesday night, we headed to Devon's town of Angers in the Loire Valley where we saw the sites and her stomping grounds. Here we decided based on cheapest train ticket price that my next adventure would lead me to Geneva, Switzerland and I so headed there on Wednesday, TGVing all across France and spending the remained of my days there until yesterday when I headed out for the marathon adventure of making it back here. I've been awake for far too long, traveled for 30 hours, sleeping on the streets of Paris and am hoping you will be patient with further updates. It was a trip full of amazing sights, people, and lots of unexpected hospitality.

PS Traveling alone is cool because you have so much freedom to do what you want, but it also sucks because it's so lonely. I miss you all and can't wait to talk to you in person again.