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[numberoneblind]

Evidently this is how I'm spending the end of my last day in London. Ah well. I've basically seen all of the main things except for the parts you have to pay to get into, because it just doesn't seem worth it -- I would've paid to do the London Eye thing, but I would've also had to stand in a two-hour queue, and £15 plus my sanity is too high a cost. I'm running out of camera memory anyway, haha... and that's WITH cleaning out the shitty pictures, which I'm sometimes bad about, meaning I probably need to either downgrade picture quality (nooooo!) or buy a third memory card (money! agh!) before I do the two-weeks-of-traveling thing at the end of January.

Today I also discovered the downside of traveling alone, which is that it generates a lot of time alone with my brain, and that's never a good thing. I'm not going to go into it further except that the horribly emo post I was mentally composing while wandering the Tate is gone, so that's good, although the key points of it are still lingering. I just need more distraction in my life.

Not looking forward to the going-back-and-forth-across-London-repeatedly aspect of this evening.

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[velda.livejournal.com]

Everyone tells you how dangerous it is to travel alone in regards to how easy you are to take advantage of and screw you over. No one mentions how much more likely you are to screw your own self over.

Imagine wandering Paris all day by your self on the anniversary of one of your most painful breakups.

Solo travel sucks.

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

Yeah, other people are far less of a problem for me while traveling alone than my own brain is. I don't worry that much about traveling alone in terms of people's normal concerns... I dunno.

(I actually think I'm less of a target now than I was with my prior travel companion -- because she SCREAMS target, being about 90 pounds, blonde, 16-year-old-looking, and blatantly American. Whereas I can project a fair amount of "don't fuck with me" and my life is easier when I only need enough of it for myself rather than both her and I!)