Manchester to Newcastle: Feeling like a Puppy

My adventures in England started in the city of Manchester. On my first full day Annie and I decided our plan was to just explore… get lost on purpose, see what kind of interesting things we came across, and eventually find our way back.

 

So we hop on a bus headed towards the main part of town. Its one of those double decker buses that you see on TV. Actually the only time I ever see them is when for some reason I find myself watching one of those shows called something like “World’s Dumbest People 6” and the driver of one of them tries to go under an overpass much too low for the bus and tears the top half off...

 

We go to the top deck and I ride ready to hit the floor at the first sign of a low underpass.

 

After a few hours in the main square of the city, we end up going to a free museum and really enjoying it. If you didn't know, the barnacle has proportionally the biggest penis in the animal kingdom.

 

Anyway, after a few days in Manchester wecatch a bus to Newcastle--beautiful city, from what I saw. The mixture of modern and old fashion buildings was realy cool. We ended up in a free museum there too. From the fifth floor you could look out and see a beautiful view of the Tyne river and the 5 of six bridges that cross it. Really nice.

 

My descriptions don't do these cities justice. Maybe i can put some pictures on here too.

 

Anyway, now we're in York and will start exploring here in the morning.

 

It’s a great feeling being in somewhere new. Everything is different. The people, the stores, the streets and cars (they drive on the left side of the road and their steering wheels are on the right side of the car), the accent (although it’s weird to think that really, I’m the one with the foreign accent), the buildings, even the smell of the town as weird as that sounds.

 

Anyway as I ride on the buses and look out the window and am mesmerized by every little thing I see, I realize something: I feel like a puppy.

 

If you’ve ever been around a puppy, the first thing you’ll notice is how everything—literally everything—interests them. The world is new and exciting to them. That’s what I feel like here. It’s different in a way I can’t explain, but to me, the world I’m in is new and exciting. And everything is interesting.

 

So here’s my final thought for the day (as cheesy as it may sound): I think it’s a good idea, as we all ago about our normal lives, to make sure we find new, interesting and exciting things—and feel like puppies every now and then.