Thursday, December 1, 2011

relaxed at last


OK, the last couple months have been a whirlwind. It is not so easy to wind down 16+ years of life in a foreign country and return to your home country (with family in tow). But we have made it, are now spending our first night in our new apartment in Kansas.

Now we are waiting for the 115 boxes we shipped over the ocean to arrive at a warehouse in Omaha....

9 comments:

Edward J. Taylor said...

Welcome back! Sadly we won't see you before we return to Japan in February...

Oliver said...

Hi from Japan.
I always enjoyed your posts - please keep them coming. Good luck back home.

BP said...

Ted - yes it is a shame. Where will you be moving in Japan???

BP said...

Oliver - thanks for the kind words. Mind if I ask where you are based in Japan? By the way, recent posts have been sporadic and short, hope to improve that from now.

Erik the Strange said...

I only spent three years in Japan, and it has taken me a decade to recover. Good luck, and welcome to your new home.

BP said...

SS- ha, by that calculation it will take me 48 years to recover, longer than I have walked this planet. Well, better get started right away....

crayon_ponyfish said...

Welcome back!

hermann said...

Well, respect! After 19 yrs. in Taiwan, I feel I would not recover in my native Germany, but sometimes I'd like to go back. Maybe for retirement?
All the best for the readjustment!

PS: Liked your blog as a fellow expat, hope your posts from back home still keep me interested.

BP said...

Herman -- thanks for the kind words. At the moment, I still feel like a kind of ex-pat in the US.....Keep reading. I will be writing about the practice of martial arts but will soon begin teaching over here in the US, so that will figure into the blog as well.

Keep us posted on your practice in Taiwan!