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Five weeks overseas and I'm finally going home.

I'm sitting in the airport lounge, trying to use up the credit on my Italian sim card by checking tumblr and posting all kinds of stuff and...well, I'd try to download Agents of SHIELD if I thought I could, but I might leave that until I get home. :D

Hoooome. Twenty four hours and three flights away. Firenze -> Zurich. Zurich -> Singapore. Singapore -> Sydney. The next time I sleep (properly), it will be in my own bed!

It's been lovely to get out and away, to sate my wanderlust once more and catch up with so many friends. And it's been wonderful to get to see more of Italy, slower and more enjoyably than the last time I was here. However, if I decide to go travelling with the Parentals again, remind me that I can't stand more than two weeks in close-quarters with them without snapping. Especially over matters like reading maps and where we're going and what we're doing.

I will be glad to get home and even to start work again. To have space and brainspace and kitteh and sistren and food and familiarity! Mm, and I wouldn't mind sleeping in my own bed again. :)

There will be a travellogue, possibly. I need to write some short notes at some point to remember all the stuff I did - one forgets most of it in the end, but the sense of experience remains. :)

Got in, met evil_plotbunny and had a good time looking through the Project Runway shop before being joined by meekosan for dinner. (Just Applebees.)

*hugs friends*

Checked out some show options on the way home - need to find out just how much USD I have on my ccard (okay, just did; should get me through NYC and out of the country without having to transfer any more).

Now sitting in the bar of the Peninsula NY since my own hotel doesn't have free wifi, and I don't think that my computer can even connect to it (needs a more recent wifi protocol). I had dessert and jasmine tea and it is all good.

I think I can afford a 3-day city tour ticket and one NYC show. Now the only question is: which show?

The Lion King, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, and Mamma Mia are the popular options; not sure there's much else I know or care to see. If there'd been a Cirque du Soleil in town, then I'd be going to one of those.

Tomorrow is Union Square Markets, the WTC, and Chinatown. And Sunday and Monday will be tour buses, with maybe a show on Sunday night? We'll see how things turn out. I may not get to see everything I want to see in New York - it's a pretty big town!

Well, more specifically, hard to get internet at the cabin we're at in Estes Park YMCA. And my phone data card is not working at all so icky.

Awesome trail walk today ~9.6km (6mi) and sjhw_tolerance MADE ME. And it snowed. (not while we were walking but probably just as we got back down). I have a gajillion photos and will have to sort through them, but we started at Bear Lake Trailehead, went up to Alberta Falls, and then up to Mills Lake which was lovely.

There have been elk and deer and interesting people from all over the US and I am very tired and slightly internet deprived. (FOMO)

Anyway, headed for North Carolina tomorrow at an ungodly hour. Tonight, packing, early bed, and maybe a squidge of writing.

I ended up dropping the Marvel Bang challenge - I had the words but there was no way the story was going to be finished. Instead, I'll see if I can ask a couple of fanartists I know if they'd like to do some art for the story. Otherwise...it'll get posted whenever I find the ability to finish the damn thing.

But I am fine. Estes Park is a cute little town, the Rocky Mountains National Park is gorgeous, and I am hungry.

Arrived and in one piece, enjoying the weather and the cats, and probably going to tidy up Alli's spare room while I'm here. :D

Tomorrow, probably will scout out routes to SF and wander around the city a bit. ladyjax? Hopefully meet up with a couple of local friends on Tues and Wed...

So many things to do!