the Dalaverse

In one week, I will be in England.

I feel like that should be written in white puffs across the sky, to get across the proper feeling.

I have never been out of the country, and I haven't been on a plane in ten years, and I've never lived in another state much less a whole other nation. I have to pack, and call the bank, and get my passport and emergency card together, and read the Frommer's guide Daddy bought from cover to cover. I want to see and do everything. I realize that I can't, and as Megan said, it's not like Europe is going anywhere, but...I want, I want, I want.

(Can I call it England? Or am I supposed to say U.K.?)