Back in CO

I am now back in Colorado, for just about two days now. I am still quite jet-lagged and massively tired in general. Having said that though, I can't really sleep. Being here again is more of a shock than I had anticipated. I probably just need the structure and focus a routine provides. That will hopefully come in the form of a job. I need to update my resume and begin sending it out to places to make that happen.
I am finding that I am making decisions in the moment. I have an idea what I would like but really just go for it when the situation arises. Take for example eating. Kosher restaurants just don't exist here, what am I supposed to do when I go out to eat then? Last night I opted for the vegetarian compromise. Meaning, I ate at a non-kosher place and ordered a pasta dish w/o meat, thereby not combining meat and dairy nor eating non-kosher meat. It was an appropriate compromise at the time. However, I love Chick-Fil-A (at least I did when I left). So I ate there, and clearly their chicken is not kosher. I needed to eat there for other reasons and now that is out of my system, something tells me that I probably won't be going back.
I am looking forward to going to shul on Friday, but I am anticipating quite a change. I am mostly gong there for the people this week and little else. To be back there will be something else after having experienced more than two dozen shuls in Israel.
I heard someone say something to the effect of: the journey really begins when the plane touches down again. Meaning that the real travel starts only when you return from the physical travel. I tend to think it is a combination of both. So for this part of the trip, I don't know how long it will take, or where I am going, all I know is that I will never return to where I was previously.