When we arrived in Japan we still felt like we were on a regular holiday. Now 40 days later we have a comfortable routine that has started to develop. Even though we know very well that travelling the world is not a "normal everyday life" it is starting to now feel like it is.
On a normal (short) holiday it is a nuisance if it rains, if things take longer than necessary and if a hotel room is not up to standard. This feeling has now disappeared and these things are just part of our new "everyday life" on the road.
We really thought that we would be missing some comforts from our "old" life by now; our own bed, the space in our apartment, having access to a car, having more than three t-shirts per person. Surprisingly we don't miss any of this (yet). Living in hostel dorm rooms and tiny hotel rooms without windows is working very well and we are still not tired of the wearing the same clothes.
It was definitely great to start the trip in a very organized country like Japan. This gave us the chance to set our minds on travelling mode in a place where everything worked. Having started in a more chaotic place like the Philippines would have been harder. Thanks to the "soft" start we were already in the right mindset when landing in Philippines and all prepared to battle any taxi driver trying to rip us off.
We are currently feeling like it will take more effort to get accustomed to the normal life again once our trip is over. I guess we will not have much of a choice once our money has runs out.
We are however already tired of all the people trying to sell us things every second meter along the street. This is however not a good thing because we have another six weeks in south east Asia and it is very unlikely to stop before we get to New Zealand in January.
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