The mental shock of going from an active outdoors vacation to the humdrum realities of everyday life always hits me quite hard. It’s like coming down after an adrenaline high. Which I guess it is, just with different chemicals.

I don’t want to do anything. I especially don’t want to unpack. But I trick myself into getting it done, by picking up and putting away just one thing from the pile every time I get up for any reason.