I had one of those moments when I woke up in "the middle of the night" – actually it was around dawn, I think – where I spent a really long, mostly lucid time puzzling out where in the world I was. That's common for many people when traveling, but I don't experience it very often. In my brain, I was paging through the many places I've been over the last month: my apartment in Ilsan, hotel rooms and ryokan and yeogwan in Japan and Korea, my friend Peter's apartment where I crashed, too. Nothing was matching up to the homey familiarity of my crashing spot on Mark & Amy's living room floor. It took a long time — at least 5 minutes. Finally, I put it together, where I was.
Was it all a dream? This is where I stayed on the nights before my departure for Korea, too. So it's a "full circle" moment.
Beautiful Minnesota fall rain, now. I slept late — later than I have in ages. I can blame timezones. Now, off to get some things done. I hope I can get my car running.