This summer will be a special one for me.
After many years of being an samideano in isolation (never a good thing, really), I will be attending my first landa kongreso, or national Esperanto 'congress' this July, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Esperanto-USA's Landa Kongreso will be happening on the weekend of 7 to 10 July, on the campus of William Peace University — the same private institution that will host NASK (Nord-Amerika Somera Kursaro) a few days earlier.
It'll be a number of firsts for me: my first trip outside the New York metropolitan area in years (decades?), my first trip to North Carolina, my first visit with other Esperantists (because there aren't too many of them where I live...), my first time at NASK, and as I've said above, my first kongreso. (It will be a much longer time before I ever see my first Universala Kongreso, partially because the cost is greater — and so is the cost of a Universala Esperanto-Asocio member. Trust me, not everyone can do that.)
I am also hoping to see some, if not all, of my Twitch fam on campus at some point during the week.
Now to the matter of getting there and back... and you'll excuse me for not spilling the tea (diri la klaĉon) here...
