After choosing an impractical way to get to the other side of the globe (to avoid Iranian airspace while visitng a friend who is much too far away), I now find myself in Vietnam with a health crisis swirling around me, failing to eat well in a sleepy, closed up city, trying to chart a course forward.
One thing that has become clear (to be fair, it was already glaringly clear; it's just been cast in very stark relief since being here) is that I don't thrive in a completely unstructured environment. A monthlong holiday, sure, fine. No problem. That's relatively small. A contained thing. Relaxation and distance and a little bit of discovery. But ten months - that's something else.
So is it the time stretching out before me? The health concerns? The mediocre food? The shuttered commerce? Hard to say. But I have found myself shopping for tickets to Rome and downloading the Schengen calculator app.
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