{"id":5784,"date":"2015-10-01T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/word.christopherwagner.org\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:51:51","slug":"return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/word.christopherwagner.org\/?p=5784","title":{"rendered":"Return Home!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are home! After 13 months, 160 cities, 42 countries, and six continents, our trip is over. Jacquelyn and I have been back in the US for a bit over two weeks and it\u2019s definitely good to be back. It\u2019s been wonderful to catch up with our families and friends, eat familiar foods, and see familiar places. We were warned about \u2018reverse culture shock\u2019 and difficulties coming back to the US but so far problems are very few. The biggest problem I\u2019ve had is remembering to drive on the correct side of the road! We spent about 61% of the time driving on the left and we switched back and forth a few times so I need to think hard about where I should be whenever I drive. Otherwise, we really haven\u2019t had any problems!<\/p>\n

We are slipping back into our former lives and re-discovering the things we enjoyed. In a way our travels were very similar to where we are now; there are a million little details to be sorted so we can re-start our lives. Instead of finding where\/what we\u2019re going to eat, learning how to get from A to B, and finding our lodging we are now finding cell phone providers, shopping for different insurances, looking for places to live, trying to get jobs, and so on. A lot of very important details have changed in the last year and there\u2019s a lot for us to learn.<\/p>\n

Since we\u2019re back it\u2019s been fun to compare similarities between the places we\u2019ve visited and the US:<\/p>\n