another grammar example

I travelled to Washington for a week after returning to the US.  (English)

 

US-to return after 1 week for Washington-to travelled.  (Korean word order, translated to English)

 

I can figure out what stuff means, but trying to put it in the right order is going to be hard.  This must be common when learning languages with such different grammar.  With French I'm actually able to say more than I can understand, but here I'm afraid I'm going to have a lot of trouble figuring out how to say stuff, although perhaps less trouble understanding things that are said.  Anyway, need to start weaning myself off grammar/translation methods...