It’s been a while since my last post.  The temps here are cooling down but it feels like summer back home.  The hours I keep on the job have really taken a toll on me and in all truth, I’m ready to come home and regroup for another adventure. Mostly because I just don’t get to go out and discover much.  I work nights, 12 hours at a time.  When I’m off I try to get as much as I can because staying up into the daylight makes it hard to get to sleep if I have been out in the light.  I am starting to feel like a vampire.  The daylight has become the enemy of sleep. 
The lack of daylight back home was one of my concerns before I left and I had been looking forward to being in a place were I would be able to enjoy some good light.  In that sense, this trip has been lacking and it’s not what I signed up for. In the beginning it was ok but since I returned from my vacation, work has been a slow steady downhill slide.
There have been major changes at my job but the good thing is that I have meet my goals and I can hang on for a while longer. 

This trip has open my eyes to see the world in ways that was not possible without coming here.  We tend to have a narrow view of the world and how it really is from our own little corner of earth and only after a person has explored a little do they start to understand. 
I have only just started to understand and that is why I am not truly ready to go home for good. 
I live on the economy with the locals and I have learned a few things.
1. American television has some great programming.
2. American television’s great programming is ruined by American television advertising.
3. American television is utterly destroying itself with reality TV.
4. Local television filters the crap programming out that ruins American television.
5. Advertisements on TV are almost non-existant on local TV.
6. We really are getting ripped off at the gas pumps. (Big surprise, I know).
7. I can get a full car detail cleaning for about five dollars.
8. The fast lane on the freeway does not have self serving, slow driving jerks/idiots that America has. They use all the other lanes.
9. Flash to pass really works here on the road.
10. Chinese restaurants still play that same cheesy elevator music in most places.
11. The local money is the best money to travel with in the world.
12. There are places where tax is non-existent…and still civilized.
13. There are places where corporations don’t run the country through the government.
14. A dry heat is preferred to humid conditions.
15. America still has the best fast food.