It’s day 2 of being back in Seattle. Reality sunk in when we arrived on Monday night at my mom’s house. We literally weren’t sure what to do with ourselves. I’m not sure if it’s from having a lack of things to do after being on the go for so long or having too many things (admittedly not as exciting as traveling) to do and therefore, we sat that night like two bumps on a log.

The feeling of being like “fish out of water” was exacerbated by the fact that we have way too much stuff. It was overwhelming. Stuff that we had left at my mom’s house prior to leaving on our trip, stuff that I had lugged back to Seattle when we first arrived back in the States, and all the stuff that we had driven all the way from Chicago with that packed our Prius to the max. What is all this stuff??? Some of it warrants being sent straight to the garbage can, but others keep conjuring up the questions “what if?” I believe this question alone is the reason why America has so much stuff.

Not only do we have tons of stuff, we seem to currently have all the wrong stuff. Like an inflatable mattress. It’s things like that that people don’t think of before going on an around the world trip. Where are we going to sleep? I have a twin bed in my old bedroom so for the first two nights, I slept on the twin and Brian slept on the floor atop our featherbed that we were able to wrangle out of one of the garbage bags we had hastily stuffed it into 16 months ago.  

We have an inflatable mattress but of course, we have no clue where it is. All of our boxes are neatly stacked downstairs in the basement and there is no way we’ll be going through any of those. So like good American consumers who are too lazy to go through 50 boxes of stuff, we decide to go to Costco and purchase a new Aero bed. It was actually a good purchase as it blows up to the size of a real bed and has proven to be much more comfortable than our small, floor inflatable.

So currently we’re looking for jobs. Since we don’t have internet (we’ll be getting it Monday), looking for jobs requires us to drive all the way into Seattle (about 20 minutes) to an internet café to begin the search. We’ve dedicated ourselves to applying for 1 job a day and surfing various sites to look for jobs.

Our daily routine looks like this:

Wake up

Walk over stuff

Drink tea, eat humbows that my mom steamed for us

Organize stuff

Shower

Organize more stuff

Plan day

Discuss what to do with organized stuff

Leave house

Surf internet for jobs

Go home, walk over stuff, go to sleep

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