So, I've been processing the trip and had a bunch of things I wanted to say, but I didn't write any of it down in time to remember them now. Gawd, my memory is so bad - I wonder why?!? The thing I had the hardest time with is my iPhone not working in the US. I knew this going to be the case, but didn't expect to miss using it as much as I did. I missed getting Facebook updates and I missed sending them! I missed being able to upload to this blog on a whim. These mediums are about immediacy, so it seems kind of silly in retrospect to capture my thoughts and feelings about the trip here now.
With that said, here it goes (in no particular order)...
1. San Francisco is the best city ever and it will always be my home, regardless whether or not we ever make it back there. For the record, I have no regrets about moving to Australia.
2. Traveling great distances can be taxing on the body, but it is a lot of fun. You just have to let go and let it all happen around you until it is over. Otherwise, you'll go nuts.
3. Cancer is a shitty disease. Everyone in my life now who is HIV+ is living healthy productive lives, which I'm grateful. Everyone in my life with cancer has died or is dying. Given the choice, I know which route I would rather go.
4. Americans weren't as loud as I thought they were going to be. The music in bars was loud though, which made everyone talk above it (which made everyone loud, I guess).
5. Everything is ridculously cheap in the US, sadly most Americans have no idea this is the case.
6. I really enjoyed seeing my family, but realise more than ever that I could never ever live in TN/KY again. It is a goddamn trek to get anywhere you want to go. I honestly don't understand how they live like that...spending all that time in a car!
7. P and B need to get over their bullshit and be friends again.
8. The image of K in a jockstrap passed out on the couch...priceless.
9. I cannot drink vodka like I used to.
10. Staying at the Mark Hopkins the last week was fucking awesome!
11. Much of the trip was a blur.
12. On our return flight to Sydney from LA, we were told that our seats weren't together because we had not been flagged as traveling together. WTF VAustralia?!!!??? Get your shit together - okay? This was one of those moments that access to my Twitter account would have been most delightful.
Many thanks to the man who traded seats with me.
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