Roaming

I've been feeling like a roamer for almost two months now - and in a way - more like half a year.  

I have barely lived in any one place for over 6 months since graduating college and this lifestyle is catching up with me. Therefore, I'm at the end of my European living, on my way back to the dreadful states.  Before I leave, I'm checking out a few of the major cities that I haven't yet seen, although my money is all but dried up.  From spending nights in cars, sketchy and scary hostels, to beautiful social hostels, to a luxurious cruise ship and 4star hotels, I've had a broad experience in my travels.

As I write, I'm sitting in the basement pub of the hostel I'm staying at in Prague.  It's a quaint and nice atmosphere, minus the terrible English rap playing through the speakers (which really doesn't go with the antique furniture, candlelight and pint of beer).  I know I'm sick of traveling when it's like pulling my own teeth to get me out the door of this nice hostel to see the sights.  I would rather curl up in my bed, read my book and close out the real world.  Which is the world I'm about to enter in two weeks.  

I will enter the US with a few applications filled out, but no job.  No money.  Nowhere to live. Although I have plans for all of these, real life is about to kick in.  Some fellow traveler from Australia told me, "oh sounds like you've run out of reasons to avoid the real world and you're on your way back."  Good point.  From teaching English, without a work visa, to completing an eclectic masters degree, I haven't really been facing things and developing my skills in work.

I would be much happier continuing my life from one fancy to another, but I'm feeling the impossibility of this and ready to head back to the place that makes me feel like like real life is unavoidable, the US.  Life isn't as real in Europe, it's too beautiful, too much history, too pleasant, too other worldly for me.

I've chosen a terrible time to join the rest of the world in real life.  Economic crisis have hit just about every sector, but especially the NGO world that I'm seeking. Here's to the impossibilities of job hunting and rejoining the real world!