August 19th - Home

Hi there blog readers, and thanks for sticking with me all summer.

I arrived home again on Tuesday night, and am working on getting the details of my life back in order so I can move on to the next adventures here. It's interesting to get used to computer keyboards with all the punctuation in the 'normal' places. I keep using the wrong keys for my dashes and apostrophes and slashes and @s. Sooner or later I'm sure my fingers will remember their old ways.

It's great to be home, strange to be operating soley in English, and amazing to have all those creature comforts that we're so used to taking for granted. Who knew that rinsing your toothbrush with tapwater, or flushing your toilet paper, or buying vegetables and eating them raw and unpeeled could be such a thrill! And then of course there are the predictably hot showers, laundry facilities that are free and available whenever I want them, and my jeans - I don't know what I was thinking packing for the summer and not including a pair of jeans.

The summer was fabulous, and I love balancing my life between California and Peru. Many thanks go out to all the new friends I met over the summer for the conversations, the pisco sours, the friendship and comeraderie and chocolate. And thanks too to all my friends and family at home for the e-mails, the words of support and encouragement, and for making me feel that I wasn't so far away after all.

I hope you enjoyed reading along with me this summer, and please let me know when you're heading out for your next adventures. I'd love the chance to travel with you too!

Hasta la proxima vez,

Karen