Weary (coming home)

We survived!

Currently, we are in Christchurch, which is where this whole thing began.

As we drove in, Kristin turned to me and said, "I feel better just being here... I have been feeling very unsettled. This is my New Zealand home, more or less."

Ditto.

And now, everything needs a good clean and scrub. All our clothes will be cleaned, everything packed away. Anything we cannot take with us is getting sold or given away (hopefully car will be sold!).

On Friday we head to the airport, car-less and carrying everything we own here. I will have a backpack, my laptop, and a box of wine. Kristin will have two backpacks, and her laptop.

It has been a crazy trip... learned a lot, experienced a lot. Kristin and I even still like each other after the blisters, sandflies, howling winds and blowing rain. After the tiny car, and long days and longer hikes... It has been a great trip.

Although, really, I think it will be years before I have fully worked through and digested all my experiences here, which is how it is, I suppose. Such is life...

But for now...

I am coming home!

~ matt