Things I've had to get used to again this week (good, bad and indifferent)

• Driving on the right side of the road
• Toilet seat covers at public rest rooms
• Turning on a tap and getting hot water, just like that :)
• Being able to choose from a great variety of places to eat
• Looking like the people around me
• Having many friends around
• Having no cell phone!
• Lots of really big cars around (I keep thinking, wow, how would those cars handle in Kenya!)
• Great roads!
• Variety (Thai food, Chinese food, fast food, lots of food!)
• Self-service gas stations
• Cheap gas (seriously! In Kenya, gas is almost $5/gallon)
• Seeing (and smelling) the ocean
• Being in small cars (as opposed to my Land Rover)
• Hearing mostly English around me
• Hearing traffic at night