Dear Universe,

My mother loves me.  She's also flippin worried about me right now and sent me an email asking if I don't want to go home.

I want you to be clear on this Universe:
Although my trip has sometimes been hard its also been awesome in the extreme and I will remember it for the rest of my life.  Wild horses couldn't drag me home right now.  If I was back in SA I would be bored out of my skull and not doing anything worthy of remembering in the far and distant future.  True story.

This journey has made me come back to life again, and for that I'm eternally grateful.  It's taught me amazing things about myself and the world and it just keeps on coming.
Bring on the adventure, Universe. 
I would rather live a life filled with experience than one not lived at all.

Your partner in crime,

Alice