Today marks more or less the halfway point of my trip. That's kind of amazing to consider. I feel like I've been gone a long time already. Were I to hop on a play this afternoon and return to the States, I would feel that it was an amazing trip, well worth my money, time, and energy. I'd tell stories of my experiences and feel that pride that comes when you believe you've done something really cool and worth telling about.
That I still have three-and-a-half weeks to go tells me that in the final analysis, I'm likely to find--pretty much as I expected to when I put the trip together--something transcendent about the experience. The person I was when I left will not be the same person who returns.