Home!

Well, after around 33 hours of travel, I'm finally home. Got back yesterday at 4 pm and I'm still very jet-lagged.

At the end of a journal such as this, I think the best thing to do would be to sum up with expansive platitudes on my journey, possibly add in some poetic phrases, and maybe tie it up with a one-sentence line that would drive it home so that you'd sigh afterwards.

I don't think that's really possible. I'm not sure I'll ever understand how much this trip has changed me, how wonderful I've felt every day of this trip, how many amazing memories that I have that no one can even comprehend. I can't even imagine how I'll even make a scrapbook to encapsulate it. I already miss Australia and all my "classmates" (the term is used very loosely) so much that I can't even express it. I think it'll be a long time before I ever am able to wrap my mind around the experiences that I've been so blessed to have.

Anyway, I'm home. I've loaded the few pictures I have (100, all from Melbourne before my camera died) and I've unpacked. My digeridoo is leaning against the wall and I've rapidly realized that I'd rather keep all the gifts I've got for people rather than give them away. Seattle seems so inferior to Melbourne that I want to cry. American money seems foreign; driving on the right side of the road is cliche; northwestern birds aren't nearly loud enough.

Photos have been updated to my Webshots account: http://community.webshots.com/user/crispythepenguin

Well, I guess that's it. G'day.