Have you ever seen some LD hikers coming off a long hike or re-entering a town after a long resupply? Some are happy to be back. Others want to go back. Others look like deer in the headlights, foreigners teleported to a strange far away land, or Zombies wandering out of the viral mental fog back into the 'in your face' culture shock after being administered a "cure?" Mindf--k. Seriously, some have issue re-assimilating to the culture and lifestyle they previously embraced because of new awarenesses and connections. When I returned from a AT NOBO I slept on the floor for a month before crawling uncomfortably under the blankets on a bed. I went off on counting 22 spoons next to the stove throwing away 15 of the redundant ones. For the first month I made half my meals in the backpacking stove. I ate Cheerios out of that same pot despite having a closet of dishes. I later donated 2/3 of the dishes to a Goodwill.
OHHH the freedom and awarenesses one can experience a long duration away from their norms.
Mark Twain: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.