After returning back home to the USA after traveling to the UK and Europe for three months is not an easy thing. One would think you simply get back into your regular routine and run with it. There are some very real things that really bothered me upon my return and I was feeling angry, sorrowful, tired,and strangely enough, bored.
I was also melancholy, missing certain things that I fell in love with abroad, like church bells ringing. They were always ringing in all the towns we stayed, here there aren’t any that I can hear.

Bakeries!! English, French, and German bakeries provide endless daily bread, croissant, rolls, sweet rolls, cakes. Here in America we have to go buy our daily bread at the grocery store. It leaves a lot to be desired when I remember the abundance of goodness in those foreign lovely bakeries.

Trucks! The hugeness of the vehicles in America is quite scary to someone who is not used to them careening at you and the loudness and stinkyness of the exhaust. You just don’t see it very often over there.

Walking. People in the UK and Europe walk EVERYWHERE! There is also a good infostructure of moving people, whether by train, u-bahn, undergroud, metro, etc. You walk to the station, hop aboard and off you go!

Sheep, cows, and bells. Once again, I am missing bells, the bells tied around the neck of the farm animals, in case they wander too far from home, the farmer can always hear their bells. Everywhere you go away from the larger cities, there are animals with bells. Here, not so much.