We're stepping out of the bus, very impatiently - we just wanna get our bags and get the hell out of here! You know why?! Because it's the last freakin' Greyhound we're gonna set foot off in quite a while. It's NYC baby, we're back home in the crazy city we left 7 weeks ago, and we're safe with all our limbs intact and still working. Everything around us seems the same as when we left, but we've changed and it smells good, no doubt about that.
We figured we would definitely be back traveling around the states and therefore New Orleans could wait for the next time. Instead we decided to go straight home from Austin, nothing more than a 43 hour bus ride across half of the US - good plan! We could imagine millions of places that would be a lot nicer spending 2 nights and one and a half day in than the greyhound buses and stations. But this was a matter of breaking records, ladies and gentlemen. 43 hours and 2000 miles are big numbers, but if set you mind to it you can do everything - especially when home is the light at the end of tunnel!
So now here we are, back home from one hell of a trip. The vast amounts of land we've covered seem infinite. We're talking about more than 10.000 miles in total, that's 16.000 km fellows. To make it more graphical for you to understand, we've travelled through the earth's 12.000 km diameter and have then had 4.000 km to float around the skies or nearly halfway around the globe.
We've experienced many fantastic things - none bad, and the trip has been one big success (just check out the earlier posts!). Even the fact of being together 24 hours a day has been great. You should think that spending that much time together would either make you crazy and hate each other or bring you even closer... And it's been only a tiny bit of the bad side, a few arguments here and there but nothing that couldn't get solved after a short cool down and a good talk. Besides that we've had so much fun together, and we practically know exactly what the other is thinking which allows us to finish each other's sentences very easily, isn't it cute....! And then we know each other so much better now; the things worth mentioning the most would probably be Marco's desperate need of peeing very very often and Kris being completely bottomless when it comes to eating.. Very weird stuff, yes we know, but also very good to know in many many situations!
And now comes the time to end this magnificent tale on our blog, and it's probably here we should come with some wise and philosophical conclusion to give you and ourselves something interesting to think about. Well we said we have changed, maybe not a lot, but we do feel some change. We have definitely been infected with the American openness and will of course try to bring it back to DK, because that is in many ways the reason behind our great experiences. Without that we would never have had all the fun with our great CS hosts that have been so kind to have us. With that change followed another lesson of life: the less you expect the more you get! Not a bad saying, right? And it has been working throughout the whole trip. We've just tried to go with the flow and let the experiences find us instead of having too much planned out already. And that has certainly carried us away on a big and powerful wave of unforgettable experiences!
So there you have it, that must count for something...
We'll miss the road, maybe not the Greyhounds, but more the feeling of traveling. And we'll posting stuff on the blog. It's been a lot of fun sharing our wonderful road trip with you here on the blog, and we hope you've enjoyed reading it.. That was mainly the idea haha... But we are also very certain that it will be a great thing to look back on in a couple of years once we are busy with the books at the university.
No more staying tuned, it's over an out... Until the next time of course!
MK off the road.
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