Mile 25: It’s Over. Finally.

This post was written in real-time on May 23.  I apologize for the delay in uploading!

I’m sitting at the airport in Bishkek.  It’s 5:30AM.  Over the next 31 hours, I will fly almost 10,000 miles to my parents’ house in Seattle, the last of the 67,067 miles I will have flown on a total of 74 flights during the past two years.  I’ve been free of Peace Corps for 12 hours.  And the sense of relief is overwhelming. Continue reading “Mile 25: It’s Over. Finally.”

Mile 23: After The Finish Line, A Fulbright

March was the month when everything finally seemed to fall into place.  When March began, I wasn’t quite sure about what was happening two months from now.  And now as it ends, I can say with near certainty what I’ll be up to between now and 2020. Continue reading “Mile 23: After The Finish Line, A Fulbright”