Its time for a new adventure.

Wow.  Its been a year since I posted something to my diary of my adventure in Miami. Its been a wild year indeed. Partly, its that I got more comfortable here and partly that I got a bit subsumed by work and started to have less and less time for my adventures.

Now, it is the eve of my return to the north and I am just starting to absorb what that means.  I am packed and in fact my belongings have already left.  Not sure if they're in Miami or where they are, but they are gone from me.  I know I'll see them again... but there's that little tickle in the back of my head that wonders. Am I really left with the odd eccentric items that were somehow left behind to travel with me in the car.  Is the sum total of my belongings really made up of a step ladder, box full of bathroom things, two towels, a router, some random books, an iron and a box marked seriously important papers.  It could be worse, it could be better.

I am heading north on Monday and as I travel the miles, I am hoping to shed some of the stress and weight of my last year here.  I am truly planning for my train ride -- I'm taking the auto train  -- as my transition ride.  I am leaving this interesting, exotic and always surprising city and traveling, mile by mile back to where I belong.  Back to a place where there are more people like me than here. Back to a place where I hopefully won't have that constant low grade alien feeling.  And most importantly, back to the world of the theatre.  I am really excited about that.  After what I've done here, I can do anything.  Really, anything.

And so it begins.  My new adventure.  I'll have to figure out how to change the name of the blog.  But that's a mission for another day.  Today, I'm one step closer to the big change.  I'm one step closer to it all feeling real.  I'm one step closer to leaving my new friends and that is truly the hardest part of this bittersweet decision.  No matter, I'm one step closer.

So now I invite you to come visit Philadelphia.  Its a cool place. I'm looking forward to rediscovering it myself. Come play with me and we'll find all sorts of good stuff.