Is it this difficult for anyone else?

Why do I suck at traveling? I'm gonna take it as a sign that its not meant to be, and therefore not attempt it ever again. Does the mood of this post look familiar. Because.....it should! Remember the last big trip I went on and started it off on a terrible note, spring break? There, I boarded the train in the wrong direction and missed my flight. In this strikingly similar and stupid case, I booked my flight for 6 AM instead of 6 PM, an error completely unaware to me until I was kicked off the 6 PM flight.

So here I am, stuck in London Stansted airport. My friends are in Krakow. Paying out of my butt in British pounds to use a computer to book a flight and print off a boarding pass. There is one gleam of silver in here - I'll get into Krakow at 9:30 in the morning and should be able to meet up with my friends and not miss any of what we had planned. But would I normally pay multiples of hundreds of dollars for such a small gleam of silver? Not at all.

I understand its money, and I should be thankful ultimately that I'm in a situation where I can screw things up like this and just book another flight even if it messes some things up, but hey, at least it was a possibility. I understand there are alot of other things to worry about and much worse situations to be in, but I'm just sick of this. What am I doing wrong? I thought I prepared well for travel, but I refuse to come back to the states and call myself an experienced traveler, because with the amount of costly mistakes I've made I'm anything but.

I don't want to bitch and moan, so I'll log off. I'll be hanging in the airport for the night and grabbing the flight to Krakow at 6 in the morning. It'll be a fun trip and I'm excited that I wont miss much. I miss my family right now though, I miss the comfort of home and being settled. I'll be right back in London in exactly two weeks laying over waiting to fly back to the USA. I'll go off and make some good stories in that period of time to make my next post, one of my lasts posts, a joyous post full of adventure (the kind of adventure that Hobbits hate).

Peace, Zach

PS - Damn those exchange rates! 140 pounds turns into like 220 dollars