There and Back Again
So you may or may not know this but at some point in the near future (preferably after I start making some money again), Antarctica is on my list of "must do's" for travel. I happened across this article tonight on Yahoo, seemingly the only media source I get my news from. Not sure if this is a good thing. Anywho. Check it out:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/antarcticahasmorespeciesthangalapagos
I've been home for a week now and so far so good. Can't really say I feel like I AM back home though. I guess this is just one of those phases you go through after you've been traveling for a while; your head has been opened up and processed so much information it's hard to find yourself getting back into the comfortable and familiar groove that you knew before you left.
I've spent the past week or so gradually catching up with friends and family. I'm VERY grateful to have seen the ones I've seen so far and I'm looking forward to catching up with those I haven't. I feel like I have an inexplicable amount of information to delve out and receive. Although so far it seems like things are pretty much normal for everyone in ye old US. So no news is good news. Sad to say though that this last bout of traveling for me proved to just be another line of cultural cocaine. Traveling around this country was my free taste, Europe got me hooked, Japan made me an addict, and Australia and New Zealand made me think I need to enter some type of rehab program.
New Zealand really left me captivated. Wow, did that sound as cheesy as I think it did? Well, it did. I spent a significantly longer time in Australia, and although it will never be forgotten, New Zealand just seems like an absolute gem of memory I can't really file away-even with my lapsable memory.
I know I've rambled on about this sort of thing before, but I really can't stress this enough. If you ever get the opportunity to hit up New Zealand make sure you take it. You'd be a fool not to. If you've seen my photos on Facebook, I don't think I really need to explain why. It's worth saying that a large portion of the country can be seen in only a few weeks and our dollar, for the time being, is significantly stronger than theirs. $100 US dollars got me around $160 NZ dollars. Not a bad conversion.
I've still got oodles of photos to sift through and get up on Facebook. I've also got to find someway of organizing, cleaning up, and placing the best of the best into an album. A hardcover one that is. I did a tally early this week of how many photos I took during my nine month stint abroad. Even I wouldn't have blindly guessed I took nearly 5,000 photos. And yes, that was the right amount of zeroes, five thousand photos.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/antarcticahasmorespeciesthangalapagos
I've been home for a week now and so far so good. Can't really say I feel like I AM back home though. I guess this is just one of those phases you go through after you've been traveling for a while; your head has been opened up and processed so much information it's hard to find yourself getting back into the comfortable and familiar groove that you knew before you left.
I've spent the past week or so gradually catching up with friends and family. I'm VERY grateful to have seen the ones I've seen so far and I'm looking forward to catching up with those I haven't. I feel like I have an inexplicable amount of information to delve out and receive. Although so far it seems like things are pretty much normal for everyone in ye old US. So no news is good news. Sad to say though that this last bout of traveling for me proved to just be another line of cultural cocaine. Traveling around this country was my free taste, Europe got me hooked, Japan made me an addict, and Australia and New Zealand made me think I need to enter some type of rehab program.
New Zealand really left me captivated. Wow, did that sound as cheesy as I think it did? Well, it did. I spent a significantly longer time in Australia, and although it will never be forgotten, New Zealand just seems like an absolute gem of memory I can't really file away-even with my lapsable memory.
I know I've rambled on about this sort of thing before, but I really can't stress this enough. If you ever get the opportunity to hit up New Zealand make sure you take it. You'd be a fool not to. If you've seen my photos on Facebook, I don't think I really need to explain why. It's worth saying that a large portion of the country can be seen in only a few weeks and our dollar, for the time being, is significantly stronger than theirs. $100 US dollars got me around $160 NZ dollars. Not a bad conversion.
I've still got oodles of photos to sift through and get up on Facebook. I've also got to find someway of organizing, cleaning up, and placing the best of the best into an album. A hardcover one that is. I did a tally early this week of how many photos I took during my nine month stint abroad. Even I wouldn't have blindly guessed I took nearly 5,000 photos. And yes, that was the right amount of zeroes, five thousand photos.