Visitor

While I've been enjoying my crazy adventure, it has also provided me with many opportunities to relax and reflect. Not just on that around me, but on that inside me too.

Today's drive around Raleigh took me through downtown and then up and around the belt line back down to Garner. Putting aside the predictable observations about how wide and open it is, I found myself traveling as much in my mind as I did on the road.

I was reminded of many other journeys I've taken. And Raleigh became a medly of cities near and far, like a patchwork city of memories that will soon itself be sewed together. Perhaps it was the overcast British weather we had today that made me feel at home, or perhaps it was the thread of familiarity from name-brands that have crossed the Atlantic that made me feel at home.

Then again, the road provided a sense of distance that the flight didn't so perhaps the experience now feels more real because the ritual of travel has been weaved into the equation. Whatever the cause of my transformation I am slowly becoming a visitor, living here for a short while, not a passer-by unaware of his surroundings.