First Blog Post

So this summer I'm lucky enough to be spending 7 weeks in Alaska and Iceland. It'll definitely be a welcome vacation from the skin-melting heat of Raleigh. And since my parents are being wonderful and financing my trip, they are forcing me to keep a blog. So here it is. I guess I'll add photos and such once I get there, assuming I can figure out how to add them. It seems like a lot of people keep blogs, so they can't be that hard to work with. But here is post one. Expect more to come, I suppose.