10 things I will miss about the town I live in right now:
Things I will miss about small town life in Winters, California:(in no particular order)
1. Being able to walk down the street at any time of day or night
2. Living on “Main Street”
3. Having the best coffee in the world right next door,Steady Eddy’s Coffeehouse!
4. Having people remember my name, say hello to me
5. Friends
6. Smell of breakfast in the morning, wafting in from the cafe
7. dogwalks by the creek
8. friendly bank tellers
9. driving my car out of town, going thru the towns one stoplight!
10.the wonderful Hispanic ladies I work with
October 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
You”ll soon discover that the best coffee in the world wasn’t the one you thought…
That banktellers can be friendly in many countries…
And that if you initiate it, people will be happy to say HELLO! no matter in what language.
Those 10 things are the ones you THINK you’re going to miss.
I agree with no.5. As for the rest, I think you might be surprised…
October 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Travelclown beat me to it…:-)
The one thing I most missed when I was on the road was the actual notion of ‘home’. Because I kept in forward motion, I missed that hub of safety, of ‘going back to’.
I made many new friends - and somehow managed to stay in touch with all my previous ones (even in pre-Internet and blog days). In many parts of the world you’ll be able to walk down the street anytime - that goes for large parts of southeast Asia, and in many rural areas (it’s not the people - it’s the animals!)
Bank tellers may well be even friendlier - you’ll bring some spice into otherwise routine days. And the coffee - well, Ethiopia… I hope you’re going there!
You’ll have periods of homesickness, especially when things don’t go as planned. But you’ll find so much joy in the present that the nature of that homesickness will probably change… I’ll be interested to read about whether what you miss from home changes once you’re on the road.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
You have just started your journey and look how many simple pleasures your have already had.