We’re home! We landed at MCI (aka KCI) around midnight and met my sister, Marie, at the gate. She took us to Lisbeth’s parents’ house, and we’ve mostly been resting since then. I’ve mostly been resting, anyway. Lisbeth has done an admirable job of pretending she’s not feeling any jet lag, and I’ve fallen asleep more or less intermittently. I think I’m going to do that again right now so I can maybe have a productive day tomorrow. G’night!
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Ahh….Kansas
Today was a good day. We slept late, ate some food we’ve been craving (coughTacoBellcough), and I went for a run. It was short, but it felt good, and I’m going to do it again. Not tomorrow, probably, but Thursday for sure. For now, though, although I’m more or less adjusted to the time, I am super-sleepy. Usually as I write these posts near midnight I’m tired, but not sleepy. Of course, usually I’d just finished working 2 or 3 hours ago, and we still not finished decompressing from the work day. I don’t really have that problem just now, what with being unemployed and all (rectifying that situation, or at least laying the groundwork to recitfy it, is the plan for tomorrow), so I’m going to go to sleep now.
One flight away from home!
Oh, my - I’d forgotten how good real diet Coke is! Coke light has been an okay substitute, but real, honest-to-God diet Coke is so, so, much better.
Almost gone
Oh, man! I fell asleep yesterday before I could post, and then I forgot to post an item in my series on Friday, and now, holy crap, we leave tomorrow.
So. Most of our stuff is packed - what remains is to pack today’s clothing tomorrow morning, and make sure all of our bags squeeze in under the weight limit. I’ve tried my best to be ruthless, but we’ve accumulated some things, lots of it gifts or souveniers that I can’t bring myself to leave behind. We’re going to have to ship a few boxes, but only two, and we might be able to get it down to one.
Tomorrow, we have to return our internet modem thingie, drop off a few things for people at the kindy, take the boxes to the post office to send home, and be ready to go at 11:00am. We’ve got a cab coming to take us to the airport, and we leave then around 6pm. In 24 hours, we’ll be in the air, on our way home.
Things I Can Do In The US That I Can’t Do In Taiwan:
- See spring coming, in the form of longer days. For six months, the sun has set between 5:30 and 7:00pm. It’s strange and unnerving, and it almost feels like natures trying to play some sort of practical joke. The visuals just don’t match up with the calendar and the smells in the air, not to mention the teasing bits of warmth.
- Drive from point A to point B without the need to put my hair back so it doesn’t get all tangled as it whips around in the open air atop a scooter. Don’t get me wrong - I have loved driving a scooter. But I’m excited to drive a car again.
- Drink tap water without worrying that I might get some strange stomach bug that’ll put me in the hospital.