I'm going to go light on you this month. This is an excuse for me to go light on myself.
We're back from the east of Asia. Last month I said:
[T]here will still be moments over the next three weeks when we will feel out of place and, well, foreign. We are going to be an uncommon, though not unknown, presence in the place that we are going. This is all part of the experience I want for myself and my family. To understand what it feels like to be a bit out of place. To experience many different ways of doing things. To learn that our discomfort can eventually become comfort. And to learn that while all these differences exist and are real, our commonalities greatly outnumber our differences.
To that I continue to say 💯! I'll admit I felt less out of place than I expected, but when I paid close attention I'd notice the quick glances. Yet people were just so polite, my goodness! Truth be told, by the end of the trip we also would glance at any of the caucasian people we passed. Humans – hundreds of thousands of years of evolution dictates we must notice what is different!
We were gone for seventeen days. Usually after about ten days of a trip I start to feel ready to be back home. Not this time. More exploring was desired. More saturating ourselves in these cultures was needed. Many differences. Many more commonalities.
The trip was beyond what we could have ever hoped. Fantastic. If you can ever pull such a trip together, I highly, highly recommend it. We will be back.
More from the Blog
I have an excuse for not blogging this month! Travel! I did squeak in a weird post about Facebook at Good Enough, however.
I would like to start documenting our trip in August. Hopefully I deliver on that, and hopefully there'll be some auxiliary posts that land on my blog. We shall see.
Announcing
Nothing new to announce this week. Good Enough does have several irons in the fire, though, and there is definitely more to come in August!
Ephemera
Usually this is where I link to some highlights from my microblog. Well, this time all the posts from July were about our trip. Lots of pictures and notes for you to peruse. Consider thyself encouraged travel!
