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Traveling
Topic Started: May 25 2005, 07:13 PM (188 Views)
mychrissy
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Chrissy
Sometimes when Frank and I travel the further away we get from home I feel a bit lonesome inside. I miss the kids, feeling safe close to home... I sometimes think I am the only one who feels this way but I have spoken to a few people about it and obviously I am not the only one.
Maybe women feel this way more than men. How do you feel?


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Chris - San Antonio TX
You might be right. In our case it's so. The further we get from home the less I care about what's behind me, the more meaningful everyday becomes, the more I look forward to the next stop. I dream of full-timing, selling the house and just hitting the road. Kyoko wants to travel, sure, but wants a home base to return to, to grow old in, I suppose. And then, when we do turn about and start heading back I want nothing more than to end it and get back home. I guess I won't know till I try it.
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mychrissy
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I remember when we bought our first motorhome, Frank talked about traveling for 2 - 3 months in a row. After we built our home in Gainesville, I think he would find that amount of time traveling to be a long time as we love being home. We do plan on being away that long if we go out west.
We are anxious to get back after 4 - 5 weeks on road. He tells me I have to get over the way I feel about missing the kids, but he's the first one to want to know if I called them.
We know we could never full time, but we also realize that now is the time to travel when we are healthy.

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Andrea in Minnesota, USA
Being gone from home in the winter I want to just keep going to the next destination. About three months and I am lonesome and want to go home. Gone for almost 5 months was my longest strech and moved frequently.

Summertime I am gone for a week to ten days and then am anxious to check my garden out.

This spring I went camping once for several days during a nice spell. Now the last 17 of 23 days has been rain. The all day drizzle type with cold. :dunno: :scratchchin: :yammer: :yammer:
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Well, I don't miss our children and grandchildren any more when we're away than I do when we're home...and that's not a lot of missing. They're all grown and happily married and settled with families, and we talk weekly. We love them all dearly, and the love is returned, but we all have our own lives to live. I miss seeing the little people grow, but I wouldn't see it here either. Other than the two local littles. Our one daughter is only about twenty minutes away and we only see them about once a month.

All of us enjoy our visits, and we are particularly happy that they all like to be with one another. Family is important to us and it's important to them. You give them roots and you give them wings.

We could never fulltime and have never seriously considered it. It doesn't have that much to do with our house or friends and family - it's just a way of life we don't think we would like. Our three + months in the winter is fine, but that's about our limit, I would think.
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
I begin to miss my daughter and grandchildren if we're away for a week. If ten days goes by, I'm ready and anxious to come home. Yes, I do enjoy travelling, but I like coming home even more to share with them.

I think I'm just a nester and don't feel comfortable unless my family isn't too far away. I also miss my home and would never make it full timing. Good thing for me that Haydn is the same way, but a 'little' less so as far as missing Christine and his grandchildren--he's more attached to our home than our family. He has a very good relationship with them, but somehow not as close emotionally.

Good to hear I'm not alone Chrissy. Unlike Haydn, I don't think I"d ever be able to emigrate to another country unless there was some 'real' compelling reason.

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Andrea in Minnesota, USA
What is important to me when I grow old is having all my friends here............the trees and bushs I planted almost 18 years ago and are now mature. The asian lilies and other pleasures that come to visit every spring.

It is doubtful that I will ever leave this home. :yammer:
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I go through these stages when we are up north and see all the pretty trees, shrubs,hillsides that I loved as a child. Even smelling the fresh air in the mountains does something to me.
I never hesitated leaving New York and moving to Florida, but being back north makes me wonder. Hindsight I guess. I really think a lot of this has to do with growing old.
Never did I think if my children moved to another state I would be right behind them.....Frank and I do love living in Gainesville, it's like a dream come true., but we both said if our kids were living in another state, that's where we would be.
Too mushy..... :P

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Well, we have been without our house for 4 months now, and don't miss it. BUT, we have only been living in the 5er for about a month, so I guess time will tell.

Gosh, I hope I don't start to miss it, it's really to late! :floorrollin: :floorrollin: But I can understand why some would. When we went on vacation, by the time it was done, it was time to go home. :yes: But now we always have our home with us. Just a different perspective I guess.
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I guess Mary and I are weird, we don't want to be too close to the kids and grandkids, not even the same state. Love the kids and the grandkids but want them to have their own lives, kind of the way we did. Phones and emails, stop on way through, but live close, I don't think so.

Months on the road are fun, come home and do different things, but home is just a place to keep toys and stuff.
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Terri and I have no children and rarely see our siblings. Our nearest is my younger brother (1/2 hour), but he has a busy life with the kids in sports. Terri's Dad is 45 minutes away and we visit every other weekend, other than that, her brother is 3 hours away. For us to just hit the road, would be easy, but I'd still want a "Home Base".......gotta call somewhere home.
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Little Kopit
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I expect to hear next that Chrissy is home.


This reminds me of me, when on the road. Last October I woke up in Fredericton, NB @ 3:30 a.m. wanting to be home. I arrived at North Sydney, NS in time to make the afternoon ferry (24 hours ahead of reservation) and was home by 2:00 a.m. NST or 22 hours after that 'want to be home feeling'.

Hope you're sleeping tonight Chrissy!!

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Little Kopit
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Thinking over night.

I grew up with relatives quite a distance away. So, that's nothing new. My brother is in California. I'm an adult orphan and have been such since 1988. Earlier this week I had a call from an aunt-in-law. Her husband is that last of that generation on either side. They are in their 90's and may not make it to the PEI reunion. Of course, I hope they do make it. This year is an exception, making plans to go visit with family.

But I want land, I want rural every day. I want things green. I did the city thing when I was young. Now, I appreciate things outdoors all the more. So, I want a home base. But I've always wanted to travel more than I do. So, I now have a camper. But my travels will probably be spring and fall, so I can have that garden. Unless my wonderings can include Oz, California and southern places, of course.

I know full-time isn't Lynne, but I can still appreciate what Jackie & Greg, Joanne & Richard and others are doing. There are so many places, fascinating places. & that is part of why I've lived in so many places myself.

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Kate and Ed
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We are very much looking forward to when we can travel away from home, months at a time. So many states we have flown over but never seen, people to meet, things to do. We have done our best with the boys. When our chance comes we are going to take it.

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All better now, home safe and sound and went to see my daughter last evening. :floorrollin:
When we go to Mama Gertie's in the fall my son will most likely stay in the motorhome with us for a few days. That will be nice.
He'll be here soon in July and we'll celebrate his birthday and my daughter's togther, both July babies.

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