After six months of extensive and sometimes gruelling travel, I flew home to London from New York. When I looked back at all the events, places and people over the past six months, I felt I had truly accomplished something worthwhile and had more experiences in those few months than I had had over the previous six years working for a large international company.
I had been suffering from extreme exhaustion over the previous few weeks and felt very relieved to be going home. I had heard various stories about people who had changed after a period of prolonged solo travel after taking a gap year but I felt it was too early to tell if I had changed in any dramatic way inside. Time would tell.