To be honest with you, being home in Indiana would be a lot less frustrating if I hadn't lost my digital camera in a Steak-n-Shake the night the boys picked me up from the airport. I also left my notebook on an airplane that day. I think losing these things were symbolic because

A) Coming home meant ending a lot of stories.
B) Coming home meant an end to producing things.

I would post a picture of my road trip down the coast of California, except that I lost my camera.