Hard to believe that this trip is finally ending. After three months and 2 days on the road, through I think 8 countries, travel really does take on a life of its own. This trip certainly has. The thing is, after some exhaustion in Kenya a few weeks ago, I’m recharged. I could go on to other countries now if I had the work. Still, I have probably a couple weeks of work ahead of me when I get back in the US just to catch up from this trip. My mind, as always, is all over the place just now, as the return flight nears. The adjustment is always so hard – especially when you’ve been away for awhile. Always so hard to go home and step off the plane from 3 months in Africa and be in the suburbs of Baltimore, cutting your lawn a few hours later. I’ve mastered the disconnect fairly well I think over the years, but this trip really has me reflecting a lot – thinking about where I’m happiest in the world, what I’m happiest doing. After two years now of being back in the US – two years last month – I still feel so much a stranger, the gap between my lives – what I do and experience when I travel and what I do when I am home in Baltimore – is just so vast. There’s not a word I could say to anyone when I get home in two days about all I’ve seen or experienced over the last three months. So you deal with that by not saying a word, by insulating and isolating your two lives. I think that takes a toll, over time. So, a bit tired out from this trip, leaving Africa for Baltimore and who knows where next.
October 15th, 2007 | by David in Uncategorized
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