We Made it!

Our circumnavigation of the globe is finally complete!  We have been back in the Bay Area for two weeks.  Actually, being here feels like a continuation of the trip because we still don't have an apartment, and aren't yet settled in a HOME yet. We've been having a blast staying with our friend Kathleen in San Ramon, and it's like an on-going "I Love Lucy" episode.  It's an non-stop party of home-made dinners, jokes about toilets of the world, and a minor obsession with watching DVDs of "Cedric the Entertainer".    As we begin the apartment hunt, it seems like the adventure and unpredictability of the trip is still going on, with the minor detail that we're working.  Well, Rich is working, and I am taking a Chemistry class (at the start of a long road towards a doctorate in naturopathic medicine) and have some good leads on teaching yoga and practicing massage around here.

We do feel like we have found home in the sense of finding a yoga studio, which is a huge blessing.  We just started practicing with Vance at 7th Heaven Yoga in Berkeley, and to be back in a shala, after weeks of practicing in homes and in hotel rooms, is like, well, a little piece of heaven.  It feels great to be in a dedicated space, with wood floors, to be with the focus and energy of the other practitioners, and to be in a warm room!!! The first day we finished practice we felt so good we practically levitated out of the studio.

And really it is good to be back and to be appreciating the wonderful perspective that travel gives you.  As someone who often reminds herself to be RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, rather than down the road or up the state or across the country, travel reminds me that there are always pros and cons about everywhere in the world.  You leave home to learn about home, and you come home to appreciate where you've been. 

Comments

[joey]

Hey Sarah and Rich...,welcome back home. It's nice to know you both made it safely back. I'm back in LA too. I got in 4 weeks ago. It's been a difficult transition but I think I'm all settled in. Hope to cross paths with you guys again...