part of the 30 Days of Indie Travel Project
if we’re talking buildings and physical locations, sure, i’ve made temporary homes in hotels, 10-bed hostel rooms, and on people’s couches, but i define my real home as anywhere that meets all of the following conditions:
- surrounded by good friends and/or family
- homemade food
- can do laundry for free or cheap
- somewhere i can work so i can fund my next trip
so while recently this has meant The Place My Mortgage Payments Go Toward, it most definitely doesn’t have to be.
spiritual homes, though? i have too many of those to count. every time i make a deep connection to a certain place, whether it be a person, place or thing, a little mental home gets built in my psyche.
it can be something as simple as a parisian community vegetable garden i stumbled upon at dusk…
…or sitting watching angkor wat at dawn…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t33oAtWldSE?rel=0&hd=1]
…or watching my favorite german band playing their final farewell concert…
…wherever my heart gets full, there is my home.