Posts for July 7th, 2005

At 6:30am EST, I woke up and performed my morning ritual - usual act of stretching and going through my morning email. This morning, I found an unusual email from a friend in London - Loren Gerlach - telling his list of friends that “I am all right”. That was the first news I got to learn of the bombing in London.

To explain how this affected me - I moved to London in July 2000 and took a Contiki tour around Europe for 19 days. While this is a rite of passage for many college students, it was particularly new to me - since I had just finished with graduate school. The Contiki office is located underneath the Royal National Hotel - right off of Russell Square.

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