Month 34: Travel Summary and Statistics
I landed at Heathrow airport and bounced my way through security and into the arms of my sister, Victoria. It would have been more exciting if she’d actually recognised me. It had been two years since I last saw her and I’d changed a lot since then — though I didn’t realise I’d changed so much physically. Victoria had to look at the squawking girl waving manically in her direction a couple of times before realising that the girl was, in fact, me. Flying into Heathrow — I can see my house from here! Like most visits back home, I planned for friends and family time, as well as taking a trip to a doctors to see if I had contracted cholera or dengue or Travel Death. This time, however, I was visiting because I had swollen, painful glands all over my body for seemingly no reason. I was convinced I had lymphoma and had begun making plans for how this would affect my travels — you know, how I’d fit in chemotherapy around flights. I breathed ...