I am going to plan a trip to Europe. Here is the plan.

In a sense much like the one that sent me to Japan, my brain put together the fact that

A. I make a lot of money now, and

B. I am going to graduate soon, also
1. I want to take a trip to Europe

Putting these facts together resulted in a frenzy of research during the first few hours of work this Christmas Eve.

I would like to spend 1 week in London, 2 weeks going via rail pass from France-Switzerland-Germany-Austria-Hungary, 1 week in Moscow. From Moscow I will return to London and then home, because this is actually cheaper than flying from Moscow to Omaha.

There is a 2 day train ride from Budapest to Moscow. (This is sweet.)

I can fund my travel to and in Europe for approximately 2400 dollars. This is shockingly inexpensive. In my brain before the research, this trip cost 2 bajillion dollars.

I am going to shoot for 2000-3000 dollars extra for other sundry things like room and board and getting busy.

I have found that I can potentially save up to 600 dollars a month. This includes the not-too-distant future where I have to pay off student loans and cry about it every night.

This, for those of you who are bad at basic math, puts me at target in 9 months, or September. (this is best case scenario).

This means, that unless I want to visit Moscow when it is cold (I do not), I would be shooting for spring or summer of 2007. This gives me a few months to save for moving the hell out of Lincoln. A little bonus there, considering I am not sure if I can keep my job and go to Europe.

The concept of saving money for any reason is foreign and exciting to me. It is awesome to me, also, that I can do this for such a romantic/cliche reason.

I will start growing and maintaining a healthy goatee and shop for the best backpacks. I will look into maybe taking up philosophy again. I will continue to smoke cigarettes.

I will have a tangible reason to come to work/finish school.

Europe wins!