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I threw off my Blundstone boots in the baggage claim area, swapping them out for flip-flops. The air-conditioning wheezed hello.

We’d arrived back in Sydney just in time for an asphalt-melting heat wave, having left New York in the middle of a shark-freezing Arctic cyclone — and man, was I thrilled to be home.

Because that, it seems, is where we landed: HOME.

Many people take the concept for granted, but for those of us who move around the world to help explain the world, it’s a process of becoming.