I’m typing this dispatch from Beaufort, South Carolina. Back Stateside, baby. After over a year in Asia. Jill’s in Seattle–we parted ways for the time being in Tokyo.
I arrived here, to the Lowcountry of SC, late Friday night after a grueling five-leg jaunt that took me from Kaohsiung to Taipei to Tokyo to Los Angeles to Washington, DC to Savannah, Georgia. 30-plus hours of travel time. Torturous.
I’m working on posting the images from our exceptionally fun Vietnam trip. And in the meantime, I’m gorging myself on the fruits of the deep south: I speak, naturally, of down-home comfort foods like fried chicken and BBQ between slices of spongy white Wonder bread and golden, crispy hush puppies and bananna pudding. I believe I my waist has grown four inches in the last 48 hours.
I’ll be posting more regularly now that I’m a bit more settled. My current plan is to be here in Beaufort for a week or two, and then begin my journey up the east coast (DC, NY, and Boston friends: I’m lookin’ at you) as I clear the cobwebs from my cranium and begin to search in earnest for gainful employment. I’m back in the USSA throuh the summer, at least. I feel happy to be home.