San Juan Capistrano, United States

Five hours and counting until my departure to LAX and don't worry because my room and packing are both at a point that they should have been a week ago. Needless to say, I have been running around frantic all day trying to get my life (what's new) in ...

Surreal. So I am back in Cali for a week and I don't even know what to think or do. It feels like I was just airlifted out of Thailand and dropped in Orange County...well besides the fact that it took 18 hours of flying to get here and there was no ...

... a conformist. San Diego is about 2 hours south of Los Angeles.  Half way to San Diego is Mission San Juan Capistrano.  It is the mission that is famous for swallows returning every March.  It is also one of the earlier missions settled ...

... flying. I have taken this last week off of work so that I can attempt to get my life together and everything ready here in the States so that I can take off for a year. I finally got my backpack today (aka my best friend for the next year) and I am ...