It feels like my real life – Brussels, work, money, apartments, pensions, insurances – is encroaching on me bit by bit, every day.

I’m in touch with HR every couple of days on job possibilities, write emails to former colleagues…

And today I finally received an email from the Belgian pension scheme on the transfer of my pension rights into my EU pension scheme (something I requested in 2010)…

So right now I’m sifting through my pdf’d pay checks and check if the numbers add up.

Such a grown-up thing to do. It feels so alien after all I had to do this past year was to book hotels and flights, arrange my trip and keep the blog updated….

In the next days I need to write two job applications and send them out.

I’m getting closer to what they used to call ‘the default world’ at Burning Man.

I’m not complaining, it’s a smooth way to get used to all of this again, I think, and being in Melbourne, and then Santiago and Buenos Aires, gives me time to wind things down.

This journey is slowly coming to its end, it’s like I’m entering autumn, and I am getting ready… mentally, somehow.