JOSHUA HERNANDEZ

Meet Jeff and Eric, my companions on my European journey.

Day 1:

Was spent mostly traveling on a plane, I didn’t freak out as much as I thought I was going to. I had never been on a plane longer than 6 hours, so I swear I was going to end up running down the aisle screaming “We’re all going to die, this plane is going down!” but I spent most of my time just watching movies. Confessions of a shopaholic is a horrible movie by the way.

Day 2:

After the long plane ride and lack of sleep (about 24 hrs of no sleep), Eric and I headed straight to downtown London and met up with my old roommate Josh Peters (see photo). Josh lives in London now and works for a church called Oasis in the downtown area. He was gracious enough to let us sleep for a couple of hours on some big bean bags and then gave us a quick tour of the city once he got off of work. We spent most of the afternoon walking around snapping photos and and asking Josh every question imaginable about London. He has done it all before so the quick tour we got was pretty pro.

London is a wonderful place, it’s like everything that I had imagined it to be. There are so many people riding around on bikes and scooters, public transportation is amazing. Cars have the right of way so you have to be carful not to get hit when walking across the street, they don’t stop for anything. There are fixed gear bikes everywhere! I was kinda surprised by that. Josh says that London is mostly flat so you can get around on a bike really easily, as long as you don’t get run over of course. After our tour we headed to Josh’s place for dinner. Josh was gracious enough to let us crash at his place and spend the weekend at his house. He has a great place with four other guys in a small town called Camberwell, about a 5 minute train ride from downtown.

Tomorrow we meet up with Jeff who broke off for the day to visit his daughter who lives in England. I think we are going to head downtown again and spend the day being tourist.

*Eric Barrios

*Josh Peters