I was looking forward to exploring Melbourne last week to refresh my mind with a few new sights and sounds. And my Melbourne trip definitely had this effect, but surprisingly almost a little too much. I can’t imagine now how my brain used to survive when I was travelling for months at a time through places far more exotic than Melbourne, because all the stimuli on this trip were enough to almost cause my mind to meltdown: I was so full of new impressions and ideas.
While I was there (in …