Well, I *had* a plan!  

I was able to get out and make the time jump, though it was kinda late.  I figured it'd be past my moms' bedtime, so I could take some me-time and explore the world a bit.  

It so didn't work.  

The plan was, I'd buy a wetsuit and a surfboard, and go surfing.  Argent-mom loves the beach, and Soph-mom used to surf when she was young, and the whole "oceans" thing has always kind of fascinated me.  Comes from growing up in a country with gay dolphins on its flag, I guess!  

So I went to Namiko Surf Shop, 'cause they take their responsibilities to the oceans really seriously, which I like to see. I paid for a wetsuit, and went off to find a beach.... and discovered I never got my wetsuit. So, like a total noob, I went back and bought *another*  - and didn't get that either.  Since I'm on an allowance from mom, I felt really horrible about that!

I figured I'd at least go for a walk on the beach, check out where the good waves are, and come back another time.  So I TP'd to Venice Beach  (it isn't in Venice - what's up with that??).  And I'd barely rezzed before some guy walked into me, then started talking at me in some abbreviated language, very strange.  He asked if I was from there, and I said no. When he asked where I was from, I proudly told him Extropia Core!  That seemed to confuse him, though - he asked if it was "in RL," and I told him no, it was in Extropia.  He said, "Im from here -LA," which I sorta figured was a sentence, though I had no idea what it meant.

Confused, lost (LA? Venice? Beach? What?), out 900 of these "Lindens" which I know are real important, and mom doesn't have that many to spare - I just gave up, tp'd back to Sophtropia, petted Murasaki a bit, and slipstreamed back uptime. 

My first big solo adventure, huh?  

Teen supergenius from the future pffft, as Soph-mom would say.  Lost money, *got* lost, got nowhere.  I thought things were supposed to be *simpler* in the past!  

I'll try again - I didn't get raised to give up!  But it's a lot harder than I ever thought it'd be, back there...