[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] MONTREAL, I AM BACK. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I felt so happy when the immigration girl gave me my work permit. I couldn’t believe it. I almost cried while looking for my luggage. What a relief. I was going to walk Montréal’s streets again as a Montrealer. I was going to have an address in Montréal, a job,…
I have lived in a weird way since I am back from New Zealand and our Road trip around the Pacific Ocean.
I travelled a lot during the past few years. I travelled a lot and for a long time too. I went three times in Canada, twice were for six months, once for a year. Though I always made it back before it has been a full year away.
This is one of the most important step in a trip and we don\’t talk about it enough: the return and the depression post travel that comes with it. Everybody knows and can feel it but we don\’t see people talk about it that often on travel website. I am going to talk about it because I have been experiencing it since I am back in my home town. It has been three months and it is still there.
While we prepare a travel, either a long or a short one, we are exited by the new adventures that are coming. We imagine what we are going to do, what we are going to see, who we are going to meet. And then, we go back to the place we started from. And it is exactly the same as we left it. The friendships we have, the relationship with the family, the city we live in… Everybody is the same and it looks like nobody changed. It is like you never left. But we changed, we left and we are not the same. « Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. » – Terry Pratchett…
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