It’s been five years since I turned up on this island. Five years! When I got here I was expecting to be in Saipan for one year - I came thinking I’d go back to New York (or possibly head for Florida or New Mexico or Estonia or Australia or Mexico or Iceland, you see) after the year was up.

It’s funny because my first night on Saipan, the Supreme Court law clerks - my coworkers at the time - picked me up from the airport and took me right to this bar where a good cover band was playing and a lot of long-term expats were hanging around drinking beer, and the expats all asked me how long I was out on the island for. I told them “One year” and they said, to a person, “Oh, yeah, I thought I was coming out for one year, too…”

The movers came yesterday and packed up all our stuff, and today B. and I are leaving for India for two months (I’m working on a neat article for the ABA Journal in India, and also just being a silly tourist).

I’m not exactly the best planner in the world, so I don’t really know where I’ll be in India and I don’t really know where I’ll be after India, either, for that matter. But I’m sure I’ll eventually turn up somewhere warm and interesting expecting to stay a year or two and take it from there.

posted by Arin at 11:13 am & filed under ABA Journal, Uncategorized, bloggy stuff, saipan, travel |