Adieu, adios, arrivederci, I'm off to make my fortune in America

(Baltimore MD) - I've been back in the US for almost two months now and it has been a whirlwind time. I've been too busy settleing back into this American life, that I've had not much time for things like blogging... but that's OK.

After all the below traveling, I came back to Geneva and had 3 days to pack my apartment. I flew to Nashville TN, which is were I had left from 2 years ago. I picked up my car at my father's house and slept for a few hours, then drove the 14 hours to Baltimore, worked 2 days here, then visited a lab at Yale for two days, then went to a family reunion/grandfather's 90th birthday party in CT, came back and worked another day in Baltimore, then went to the beach in NC for 5ish days to visit my father at their house there, then was back in Baltimore for a few days, then visited my step father's family at THEIR family reunion for 4 days. Went to ANOTHER wedding and then came back here last week. That was a month...pheww.... I've been more or less here continually now for a month, with a few short trips to visit friends in NYC here or there. Baltimore is not Geneva, but I like it and I'm getting used to the new place. I will be here for awhile. It'll be nice to stay put for a for period of time. I feel like I've been in constant motion since I left Palo Alto five years ago.

I started this blog to chronicle my life while I was in Europe for a few years. And I more or less did that. I might have wished for more time to write in it, and I wish had updated it more. Not 10% of the amazing things I did or saw in the last 22 months made it in to it. The time I spent in Geneva were truly one of the highlights on my life and the memories and friendships I made will stay with me forever.

I originally wanted to go to Europe, because I felt like a lived in a small little world and I wanted to live in a bigger one. Now the ironic thing is, with the things I've done and seen in the last 2 years, I feel like the world has shrunk to the size of a pea. It feels tiny to me, but in a different way.

I think this is my last blog post. I thank all of you who came by to read what I might have had to say ... I really enjoyed doing writing it, and I'm happy that some of you found in interesting enough to come back more than once. Although I'm not writing here anymore, please send me an email from time to time to ask "What's up?". Keep in touch, eh?

Adieu,

P