After 7 months traveling through South America, we’ve returned to our native land! Well, Florida anyway. But so far it’s great. I think I’ve traveled enough that there wasn’t any reverse culture shock coming back. Before upon returning the fast paced life, overwhelming number of products, and English everywhere have been a small shock, but this time I was looking forward to all that too. There’s definitely aspects of life in the US that aren’t so great, but there are those things everywhere and it’s hard to beat the culture you grew up with for making you comfortable.
That said, upon landing in Miami I don’t think anyone we met for the first few hours was a native English speaker. Turns out to be very useful to know Spanish these days even here in the US. Perhaps people in the US will finally start to see the value in learning another language.
Now that we’re back we’ve got a rental car, and it’s a convertible! We reserved the economy cheapy of course, but they didn’t have that so now we’re cruising in style with a free upgrade. We’ll be cruising from coast to coast (of Florida that is) and south to north to visit family and enjoy the warm weather.
Ooooh…Mr. Fancy-pants has a convertible! Nah, seriously…for a warm-weather road trip that’s the way to go. At least I would imagine. I’ve never actually been in a convertible. Safe driving you guys…
Comment by Aaron — April 23, 2008 @ 6:28 am
Hey what’s a pirate’s favorite car? A “convERRRRRtible”! Ha! Sorry that was dumb. Hey, what’s your roadtrip music like these days?
Comment by Aaron — April 23, 2008 @ 6:30 am
Roadtrip music this time was satellite radio, which was fun in my mind mostly for the comedy channels. I still prefer having my mp3 player hooked in. Recently we’ve been listening to Michael Franti, Manu Chao, and a few groups we discovered recently called Gogol Bordello and Project Gotham. Hopefully now that I’m near to computers again my last.fm profile will start updating again.
Comment by mmrobins — April 27, 2008 @ 7:16 pm