Travel Fever & Other Assorted Stories: Entry Two

What better time than now to return to old haunts, to my longtime stomping ground. Old friends have come & gone, the scenery around campus has changed over time but so much has remained the same...Once more one has found home sweet home, one has found (as it were) serenity at long last. And of course, one has regained a connection with old friends & has every opportunity under the sun to make new ones as well. Around here, without question, life is beautiful & always will remain that way.

Around here, life is about to settle down for another round of good times which are never in short supply. Of all the times during the year when one must resume with life as we know it, putting off the nomadic trappings which has defined his summer, that time is now. If there is room to roam, it's almost exclusively to do errands, go shopping, the occasional visit back home...house parties & bars come up later on. Otherwise it's all work & almost no downtime save for the weekends. What more could be said about the adventures awaiting me each time I return? or of the further surprises this place has to offer along the way?

These words are written from experience, from a man who has spent a good four-&-a-half years living the good life in such a neighborhood as this. And I miss those days with a passion, reflecting on the words which I just wrote for whoever feels inclined to read them. This isn't to say my urge for reliving those days has been lost forever; it hasn't by the way. My urge to relive some of these moments has never been as strong as it is now. Maybe it's less so but still this fire keeps finding ways to rekindle itself. I may have grown calmer & wiser since my last days as an undergraduate but in no way, no how has my love for this place diminished. If anything, it has only grown stronger: Why it took me this much time to say so is beyond any attempts at conjecture; what I do know is I have a longing for home away from home, a longing which cannot quit on its own accord & never will. What better time to return over here than now...My homesickness has already made itself apparent...Soon my next journey will begin & who knows where it will lead me to...