It looks like my trip has taken a detour. For lots of reasons (including many that at least seemed to make sense a month ago but don't so much now) I find myself back in Texas. I wanted to get back for a family event in early September and for a few other things and flying back on 14 July worked out the best. I think.
Getting back into the US was reverse culture shock to the extreme. It was strange hearing so much english being spoken all around me and being able to read all the signs. Even the Texas and American accents were more defined in my ears than ever before. It was surreal to say the least.
And I immediately missed my traveling. I wasn't ready to go "home" at all. It's nice to see family but I miss the road behind me as well as the many roads I have not yet traveled. Instead of being "homesick" I find myself "roadsick".
But my journey isn't finished. Before my trip I half expected (and somewhat hoped) that this adventure would afford the opportunity to excersise the travel demons and "sow some wild oats" or something to the effect where I could move on to a different phase in my life. Wrong. If anything, traveling for 16 weeks throughout Europe like I did has just hightened my sense of adventure and severely lessened my hesitation or fear of going "farther down the rabbit hole."
So what next? I'm working on that. Because I returned to Texas short of my 13 October plan my new plane ticket has a return flight scheduled to take me back to Paris on 20 September. From there, who knows. Before then, I'm working on that too. The idea is to take a motorcycle trip to Vancouver, Canada throughout August. Hopefully that will work out.
Time to go check out the motorcycle.
Posted July 19, 2004 11:15 AM @ (GMT - 6)
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I picture you like that rabbit on Alice and Wonderland hopping around maddly "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date, no time to stop and say hello, I'm late" have fun on the rest of your travels and keep this website updated regularly : )