On a walk, near our house.

My first post, made in the remaining 36 hours before I leave for one of the biggest adventures of my life, and truly a dream come true.  To tell you a little bit about what I'm doing for the next month, and what it means for me, let me say that for most of my life I've had a deep desire to travel Internationally, and to be immersed in a historical, musical environment.

I am grateful to the many loving people who have supported in various ways my first endeavor of this kind, and who have played some part in making this possible at a time which seems the least likely for it to happen.  I will be flying into Munich Germany, arriving there on Sunday, July 1st after about 16 hours of travel by plane.  There, I will hop onto an S-Bahn (a quick train) for about a 5 hour journey that will take me to Vienna, Austria ... also known as the music capital of the world.  I will have a very budget experience from July 1st to July 5th, of soaking in a very musically powered city of over 1.7 million people (compared to the roughly 21 thousand in my hometown), where many of the greatest Classical Composers and musicians who ever lived voyaged at one time or another in their own lives.

In Vienna I will visit as many historical sites as I possibly can and I hope to have the chance to actually live, in some small way, what I have only read about before and have longed to someday live.  From there, I will be traveling by train to Innsbruck, Austria, where I will be picked up by a friend and we will drive to the Schlern International Music Festival in Völs am Schlern, Italy, where I will be for 3 weeks, studying and performing.  During my time at the Festival, participants will also take a day trip to Salzburg, Austria, and possibly to Vennice, Italy.  

I can't say that I really know what actually awaits me, but with deep gratitude I hope to bring you with me on this important musical and personal journey.