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Month: June 2012

UK Trip- Day 15: Traveling Home

June 6, 2012
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April 23: I woke up SUPER FREAKIN’ EARLY. I’m sure my roommates hated me for it, but two of them had arrived at something like 3:30am one morning, and that’s just how things go in a hostel. Anyway, I checked out and got my towel deposit back. Then I took the tube to Paddington and…

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UK Trip- Day 14: Countryside

June 5, 2012
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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…

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UK Trip- Day 13: A Tale of Two Tours & Three Museums

June 5, 2012
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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…

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Terms Explained:

AWP-I worked at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs
BookCrossing-the act of registering books and leaving them in public places for people to find
BCinDC- my local BookCrossing meetup group
DADA-my local Harry Potter meetup group, Defense Against Dumb 'A's (who don't get Harry Potter)
Gillian-The name of my current GPS unit (old GPS was named Jill)
HPA-The Harry Potter Alliance. My local chapter was Carpe Futurum
Love-The name of my dark red Honda Element
Markeroni-finding & photographing historical markers (usually with a mascot; mine is Eeyore)
OBCZ- Official BookCrossing Zone (a shelf where it's okay to leave books)
Snarfari-at Markeroni, a historical marker is a snarf. So a snarfari is a safari/trip to find markers
WRock-Wizard Rock is Harry Potter music

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