Back in the US

It’s been a little while. I flew back via Australia and Singapore. In Singapore, I spent one last afternoon soaking up the small region known as Little India trying to remember the colors, the sounds, and the smells.

Quickly upon arriving in the US, it was time to get down to business. One 30 hour driving marathon later, I found myself in what I like to refer to as the middle of nowhere. I go through love/hate cycles of living in the middle of nowhere. There are enough outdoor adventures around to keep me going for years. Once I adjusted to life at 8000 feet, I learned to love the mountain biking and running trails. I finally feel like I have an understating of the term “hill.” While I still do not always enjoy the grueling process of climbing them, I have learned to love the feeling of accomplishment at the top.

I spent the better part of 3 months studying for what may or may not have been the biggest exam of my life. After establishing a study for 6-8 hours per day routine, I’ve been sort of lost since I finished the exam at the end of July. I threw myself even more into working out but might have over done it.

Another project I poured myself into was a photo slideshow for the SE Asia trip. Looking at my photos was really interesting since I hadn’t looked at them for a few months. There were some that I had never seen before on a computer monitor. Re-living the trip has made roused a lot of the feelings I had while traveling: the main one being a sense of urgency to take action. The second being that I want to see the rest of the world.

After coming home and talking to a lot of my friends, I was saddened in that it seemed really difficult to relate the intricacies of my trip. A lot of them seemed disinterested and didn’t ask me anything about it. I later realized that they probably didn’t know where to begin.

Speaking of knowing where to begin, my blog for the next few months will hopefully chronicle my journey into figuring out the best way to exert all of this energy build-up I have. I expect it won’t be quite as interesting as a 5 month jaunt around SE Asia, but you never know!