I have returned from my bipolar vacation. It was such an experience I will tell you that. I got great inspiration everywhere I looked and could feel the artistic energy flow through me. The weather, on the other hand refused to cooperate. One thing that I can tell you is that I learned how to get around the city quite fast, and efficiently. It seems no more complicated than my years spent abroad. I didn’t run into “rude” New Yorkers, at least not that I could tell. The people I spoke with were quite lovely and everything went wonderful.

It was fun to jump from plane to train in such a whirlwind only to be followed by carting around wheeled (thankfully) luggage many blocks and through a few subway transfers. I navigated that like a pro and am quite proud of myself for that. For someone who had been dealing with social anxiety I’m surprised I survived. I think I rolled through New York like a tank. Honestly it could be how my father raised me, to be efficient in my surroundings; no matter what it made it a positive experience for me. It made it where I could truly enjoy the city.

The weather made it quite a hassle and mother nature is on my crap list, though. Promising me sunny and 50’s and give me rainy/icy/windy in the 30’s and 40’s. If I wanted to be there in winter I would have chosen to do so. One thing that it did do was humble me to my surroundings and see the city more in the raw and now as much through a tourists eyes. The gray cold days, the determination I had to attempt the things I wanted to do brought me back to a place of reality. It put me in a darker mindset which set me up for a wonderful realistic interaction in my written work. I came up with some good stuff. Even if none of it is specifically geared towards a trip into The Big Apple, the inspiration that I grabbed from that was priceless. If I can say one thing I took home from my trip it would be that the experience got my gears well oiled and running again.

So now that I am home, I can look back on the doom and gloom and delve into that to hopefully produce something quite riveting.

If for some reason you missed the few pictures I posted on Instagram (since I am a baby on it) go check it out and follow me. We’ll work this from the ground up and I’m sure that I’m going to have a lot of fun using it.