April 22: I woke up early to mail postcards & head out to meet the tour group to go to Harry Potter locations in Lacock and Oxford. The tour guide turned out to be one of the women who was on the bus tour yesterday; she had been undercover to evaluate that tour guide and…
April 21: Once again, I had a morning where I needed to choose what to do. The options I gave myself were: The British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, or the free walking tour. The V&A wasn’t even on my radar until the other day when my Harry Potter tour guide said it was…
April 20: Even before I purchased my ticket to the BookCrossing convention (the reason for the trip), I purchased my ticket to the Warner Brother Studio Harry Potter Tour. I pretty much just guessed a good date that wasn’t my birthday and hoped that I’d be able to schedule everything else around that date. I…
April 19 (my BIRTHDAY!): I got about 8.5-9 hours of sleep, excluding the few times roommates came in and out of the room. Last year I didn’t really get a birthday, because of the BookCrossing convention, and I’ve been tired of being forgotten or rescheduled on for my birthday in years past. So this year…
April 18, 2012: Had my last full breakfast of the trip (double veggie sausage and double tomato this time-YUM!). I’m going to really miss the Old Court House. I was only there for one day and two nights but I felt right at home. I finally got to meet the owner (she’d been away because…
I woke up early on Sunday morning and ate breakfast while watching motorcycles drive past on the street outside. On the bus on the way to NYC, I overheard someone mention something about thousands of motorcycles and I finally figured out what she’d meant. My plan for the day was to visit Ground Zero. I’d…
I woke up early Saturday morning to go snarfing. Well equipped with Eeyore, Stu, and a snarf map melydia made for me, I ventured into early morning NYC. It took me about half an hour to properly get my bearings (I kept going the wrong directions along the long blocks, heading toward the river instead…
Friends in DADA and I headed to New York City for what became a weekend of awesome. I woke up at bloody early o’clock on Friday morning, rushed around, and drove to Delma’s house, where I waited until we were all assembled to leave for the bus “station†in Washington, D.C. We ended up getting…
On August 21, I took a day trip to Luray, Virginia, with the DADA group. We arrived separately, so I spent the morning snarfing on my way there. I targeted Front Royal, a town I’d been to a few times before for work, though I’d never noticed any of the historical markers. I realized I…
This just in from my lunch break… I’ve finally got my photos from my trip to Florida organized and online! There are a few problems with them, and I apologize for that in advance. The first problem is that at least one photo is in the wrong place (I spotted one, so there might very…
My last day of the trip began with a strange feeling, turned into a warm & fuzzy one, progressed into nervousness/stress, and ended in disappointment. It was odd being back in Christiansburg & Blacksburg. I had a huge snarf map but wanted to concentrate on the campus at first and snarf in Christiansburg, Salem, and…
I woke up at 7am in order to pack up, eat free continental breakfast, and be on the road (alert & ready) before 8am. I think I checked out at 7:50, so definitely on time. I made it to Savannah, Georgia around 9:45am (also ahead of schedule) and found a parking spot on the street…
Playing catch-up… (I started writing this on Tuesday evening and finished up on Friday) On to Monday. Monday seems like so long ago, not just yesterday! That’s what happens when you pack your days this full of fun. Let’s see. Oh, I got up at 7am and checked out of my hotel room (there was…
I’m still working on the write-up of the rest of my trip… but I thought I’d post the photos of the photo scavenger hunt my roommates and I did. I still have not heard about the winners, and am a little annoyed about that. There were 15 required photos and up to 5 wildcards. Categories…
I’m utterly exhausted but I’m risking falling 3 days behind if I don’t post right this moment! I also risk forgetting what happened days ago :-) The last day of Infinitus was good. I got up after a little more than 5 hours of sleep and went to stand in line for the leaving feast….
And now I’m in a taxi on the way back from the post-Infinitus show at Nerdapalooza. I thought about staying longer at Nerdapalooza actually. There seemed to be some really great bands lined up and I paid a hell of a lot of money to get there & in & back. But I’m so exhausted…
I’m sitting on line for the leaving feast and at 59% battery power so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to get done. The bags under my eyes are enormous. Yesterday morning I went to a panel first thing that was WAY too academic. I appreciate when scholars don’t talk down to us…
I went to bed at close to 4 this morning and it’s just a little after 9 now. The first session is at 10 so I’m going to type this up as quickly as possible. Yesterday was amazing! Sessions I went to: Caught tail end of a session about the fandom as a whole, whole…
I am writing this on 3.75 hours of sleep sooooooooo if I sound a bit crazy, that is why. Clearly my roommates do not ascribe to the “no sleep ‘til breakfast†rule of Harry Potter conventions because they woke up just as I was finally drifting off to sleep in the morning. My head was…
Wow. I got excited seeing the Hogwarts towers from the freeway, but the actual Wizarding World definitely took my breath away when I saw it up close. It was about 4 times larger than I had expected and the lines for the stores were about 100 times longer than I’d expected (I knew there was…
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