Home again...

Well we're back home now.  Shortly after our last blog post we decided that we were finished travelling and that it was time to go home.  We had originally planned to stay in Thailand for a few more weeks and then head over to India for a month or so and then come home at the beginning of April.  We basically woke up one day and realized that we were done.  There wasn't any specific reason, other than both of us realizing that we had had enough.   Travelling was great, but we were getting more and more excited about coming home.  So we booked our flights and came home on February 10.

Coming home was really nice. We've had a lot of get-togethers with our families and friends, and we were able to make it back home for some special events such as the baptism of our new nephew, and the engagement party for my sister and her fiancé.

We’ve been living at my parent’s home for the last few weeks.  We intend to find our own place as soon as possible, but it’s proving to be more difficult that we planned.  We even had an approved offer on a really nice home that we were really excited about, but that fell through after an inspection revealed a worn-out septic tank.

Besides house-hunting we’ve also been busy with a hundred other things to do.  Paperwork, banking, insurance, bills, car-hunting, shopping, work, etc.  Joh is currently looking for a job, and I’ve gone back to the company I was at before I left.  I’ve now been working for a few days and it’s amazing how fast it all comes back.  The past 13 months of travel already seem like a distant memory as the daily routine takes over.

Hopefully sometime over the next few weeks we’ll post a nice conclusive letter here that will summarize our experience.  Everyone asks “What’s the best thing you saw?” or “What was your favourite country?”, so we’ll try answer those questions and more.  For the time being though, we’re enjoying being back and we just need a bit of time to get settled and to let it all sink in.