Well, I made it. I'm in Spain and I have now been here for one day. It's strange that I already have things to write about, but I'm attributing it to having too many hours on a plane with nothing but my thoughts. That, and a relatively cool flight.

Our flight was pretty cool mostly because of our trajectory. We flew from Portland, OR to Amsterdam, which means that you take a really high arch to the north to cut out some of that distance. While we were somewhere near Greenland, I think, I took a second to look out my window and what did I see? A weird green hazy cloud that stretched a great distance across the sky. I wasn't sure at first what I was looking at but after a few seconds realized that it was the aurora borealis! Now, this is pretty cool for me because one of my bucket list items has been to travel to Alaska to see the Northern Lights. And while I still haven't been to Alaska, I now have completed the second half of that list item. It was a little disappointing to be honest, because I think I have only ever seen time lapse footage of the Northern Lights which makes it look like they are wavy and dance. Well they don't. At least not in real time. But after looking at it for a while it was clear that it was slowly changing and sometimes it looked a lot cooler than others. I am also taking into consideration that I was seeing them from a plane instead of on the ground. They might look cooler that way.

We also flew over Northern Ireland and England. This had an interesting effect on me and I'd like to try to explain my thoughts, not that I think there is anyone I am even explaining them to. I doubt anyone will read this. Maybe two people. Or three. As we flew over the small, scattered cities in the dark I couldn't help but wonder who was down there, and what they were doing. I immediately wanted to be there and see. I wanted to experience what it must be like to live in a small coastal town of Northern Ireland. It wasn't long, however, that that thought was replaced by wondering what it would be like to live in northern, inland England. And then Amsterdam, where I caught the sunrise that came up at an angle. And I'm sure I would have wondered the same about the place below me between Amsterdam and Madrid if I had only remained awake for that flight. I realized, though, that I kind of wanted to be EVERYWHERE. I then tried to briefly imagine a lifestyle that would allow you to be everywhere, and the only possible one I could think of was the kind that doesn't allow you to stay in one place for too long. So I came to the conclusion that if you want to BE everywhere, you can't LIVE anywhere. Which means you need some source of indefinite income that satisfies the inevitable need for cashmoney, without staying in one place long enough to work. But, I don't know how to secure this source of required money so if one of the three people reading this can tell me how to fulfill this dream of mine, I would greatly appreciate it.

For now, I'll live Spain, where the sky has since yesterday reminded me of the movie Vanilla Sky (which happens to be a remake of the SPANISH movie Abre los Ojos).

So tomorrow I leave for Spain. I am still not done packing, but I'm tired so now I'm about to go to sleep. I figure I'll work out the rest of it before I have to leave in the morning.

As I was getting some of my things together, I had the thought that it might be a good idea to have this Little Adventure written down someplace. I figured this is just as good a way as any, especially because if anyone wants to know how it's going, I don't have to tell them all individually. I can just refer them to this thing.

If I know anything about myself, which I don't claim to do, I won't write more than maybe three of these entries. It will start, or HAS started, with good intentions but I often lose interest and the desire required to start a habit, however beneficial it might be. But let us not let that deter me from writing at least one entry. Even if that's all this ever turns out to be.

That's it for now.