Distractions

I'm getting distracted by being in a new place. My characters are behaving differently because my brain is. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. I wonder if I should wait more and let my consciousness relax in its new environ, or just continue to write and let my characters take on a different flavor?
I've decided on the latter. Since this is a first draft anyway, and rewrites are inevitable, I shall allow my imagination to color my characters with the new crayons in my box.
I noticed too,when I kept a blog of my Ireland travels, that I was feeling differently about ordinary things. When everything around me was new, even the simple process of making myself a cup of tea felt different . It would stand to reason then, that something as complex as creating fictional places, people and events out of nothing but the neurons and synapses of my brain would take on new and different dimensions.
Getting away from the daily routine was far more than an opportunity to relax and learn about new places, it is also a way for my mind to grow and expand in ways I was not even aware of. Now that I am in New Mexico and everything looks and feels vastly different than in Tennessee or Florida, my entire creative processes feel a bit different .
Of course there are thousands of examples of people who wrote wonderful, insightful, imaginative pieces without ever traveling more than a few miles from their home, but if I don't embrace the idea of moving about as way to juice up my creative process, then how in the world could I write it off on my taxes?