That Place Called Home

That Place Called Home -

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok."

These were words I had not spoken to be heard in two years. And they would have been sorely missed. After landing in Bangkok, I sneaked an airport by effortlessly where I had countless times and made my way to the train into the city. It was a routine that I without thinking, followed, and I was just on my way to my hotel (I points used in the new W hotel for free to stay, one of the nicest W hotels I have ever been had, but that is another story). After check-in, I let my bag and headed to the nearby street market, sorely lacking pork noodle soup, order Thai lemon tea. (Tip: .. If you are looking for a market in Thailand, find an office area where there are hungry office workers, there are great street food)

The sights, sounds and smells had a reassuring familiarity to them. After a long flight from San Francisco, I felt at home.

And as I stared here over the city to sit out, I think about what the word "home" really means. Is it a place or a state of mind? A feeling? Can you have more than one home? Is it yours? Grow up? Own property?

For me a home where your heart feels most comfortable. It's a place you in with ease step, and your heart says, "Yes, it is," and wraps this place to be like a warm, cozy blanket. A house is just a physical structure filled with material, but a home ... that's where you know you belong.

For me, this is Paris, Stockholm, New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Bangkok. There are many other goals that I love and back too often, but they are not at home. My heart belongs not in them. They are nice to visit, but I do not want old, to grow there. but has me in each of these goals listed above and I'd love to stay there until my dying day.

Traveling has taught me that the word "home" a physical location goes. As I have traveled the world, I have learned, I fit in many places. This has given me an insight into the people and the rhythm of life. There is a certain universality to life around the world. I think that's why so often we can accurately compare cities easily and (sometimes). It taught me that the grass, because at its core is not green, the grass is always the same.

And no city crystallized the better for me than Bangkok. It was where I is the first time really stopped and lived. It was a place where I built a life and got a job, friends, a girlfriend, and a routine. I came here a stranger, not speaking the language and to know only one person, and I went with a life.

I learned to survive.

I grew up.

that to learn at home, can so many places the world much smaller given me. It is not the idea again that it "my home" and "other places in the world", because the world is my home.

I know that there a bit might depart "out there", but if you can move so easily, and feel in so many places well, it makes the world a little smaller, less strange, and much less scary.

but no matter where I go, what I do, or how long I'm gone, Bangkok is always home to me be

For this reason, I will never ever stop emotional when I these eight magic words heard. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport."

Travel is a wonderful experience, but sometimes there is nothing better than coming home.

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