On the Road with Julie

Time to Read:

I have just boarded the plane to my final destination on this incredible world tour!

I have about 4 half started blog posts in my humble attempts to try to capture my amazing experience of the last 2 weeks of my life here in China. Hopefully, I’ll manage to get them posted before I dive deeply into my Japanese adventures tomorrow morning.

I can’t help but feel a special kind of nostalgia in this particular moment.

One of my favorite parts of this trip has been the spaces in between, arriving at the airport, saturated in the adventures of the country and language I have just steeped myself in for the previous weeks, feeling the surges of memories find their long-term residence in my mind and heart while the palate clears and I feel the excitement and anticipation build for the adventure in front of me.

It is only in that in between time in the airports from one place to the next where I find myself fully able to connect to the fullness of this trip as one whole journey, where I feel the excitement of, not just visiting any one place or studying any one language, but the excitement of their chronology, of their proximity to each other, of one adventure seamlessly tied together with the ones before and after into one tremendous whole.

These moments have consistently been among my favorite parts of this world adventure. As the announcements let me know that the cabin door is about to close, I find myself distinctly aware that this is the last time I will have this in quite the same way, my residence in the spaces between.

I am so profoundly grateful for this experience. I can’t wait to finish writing all about my incredible 2 weeks in China that are about to come to a close. I can’t wait to dive into my final destination and fill myself with the richness of a new culture, new tastes, new sights, new sounds, new language and new memories.

What an amazing journey this has been. On to my final stop.

Japan, here I come!