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Ahhh…so my craving for some travel has been fixed once again. On Wednesday I left with my sister bound for Europe. We both left from our respective homes, me from Greenboro and her from Raleigh where we would rendezvous in Newark, New Jersey. It was a stunning sight seeing the skyline of New York while on approach to the airport but at the same time the absence of the World Trade buildings reminded me of 9/11. Here in New Jersey we had about five hours to kill but as my sister manages our time well, we already had a challenge waiting before us… to find a Post office in the airport. Simple enough you think?? We scoured every corner of the airport asking five different people who worked there for a post office boxes. The answers we got were: go to the continental mail service which really was for employees, go to the Fedex station which you can’t get there by walking and lastly we heard that two weeks ago they just removed the post office throughout the airport so that really didn’t help us out much at all. Before I knew, it was time to board the plane. Now keep in mind this plane departed at 5:15PM and arrived in Amsterdam at 7:00am the next day. So sleeping on the plane was preferred but to my dismay I don’t sleep very well on planes especially when I’m too excited to get to my destination. Read the rest of this entry »