It is with a strange mix of excitement and terror that I write this entry on this beautifully mild and breezy Sunday evening. Today I made the most important purchase of my recent past and foreseeable future: I bought my one-way ticket back home. My Taiwan adventure is coming to an end on November 7 at 1pm.

I'm outta here.

That, my friends, is quite an overwhelming thing to finally say officially. It's been something on the horizon for nearly a year at this point, and more recently I've had my eye on a particular ticket. But, now that I've actually bought it...that's pretty cool/weird/scary/awesome. So you better pencil some Nik-time into your schedules because my time is limited now (though still affordable if you bring me snacks). There will definitely be a much, much longer blog entry about all this some point in the near-ish future as the last six years of my life have been, by far, the very best of my three decades on this pale, blue dot.

For now, I'm going to go for a drive across the city and try my best not to freak out.