So it starts

The last thing I needed was another social media profile (if you haven't already found me you can find me on current online fads such as Facebook) but hey I wanted to keep a record of my travels and after reading about various people's recordings for their travels this seemed like a good place for it.

If you hadn't figured out I'm going to New York in just over a month's time. Excited much? You bet. To say I've had an obsession with all things to do the US would be too much of an exaggeration but it's certainly the one country in the entire world that I've always been fascinated with and wanted to go to more than anywhere else. I'm always saying how I wanted to do things in life but never get around to doing them. But somehow for some reason I decided to take the plunge and go ahead and do something.

So New York it is. There's so many places I want to go in the US and I will see them (I'm already looking to go next year), but for now I'll start with what is probably the greatest city in the world (and perhaps Philadelphia as well, but that's another matter entirely). I can't wait to go, I mean really, really CAN'T wait to go. For at least the first few nights I'll be staying Bedstuy, Brooklyn. Gritty yes? While I will be doing some touristy stuff during the week I want to go 'off the beaten track' as it were.

I'm feeling pretty beat right now so I'm going to cut this entry off here. There'll be more about New York before/during/after my trip.

If you wondering where the title of this blog came from (To The 5 Boroughs and No Sleep Til Brooklyn were already taken), its from I And Love And You by The Avett Brothers. It was an episode of One Tree Hill and it just killed me.

Anyway later.