Comments on: Back Home

By: Backpacker

Backpacker — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:55:41 +0000

There’s no place like home Matt. Hey, I just want to tell you, I love you blog!

By: NomadicMatt

NomadicMatt — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:19:40 +0000

HA! Looks like we switched places huh?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:19 +0000

Boston’s been my home for a while now even though I wasn’t born or raised here (it’s where I’ve spent my adult life so far). But not for long!

I’m leaving for a RTW trip where I’m planning on ending up in Australia to make that my new home. Your story of making Bangkok your home makes me excited to think I can make anywhere my home. Thanks!

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:17:47 +0000

I know this feeling well. I moved back to the Caribbean, which was once my home in 2006 but for a long time kept thinking of the UK as my home. In truth, I have two homes (mentally, if not physically) – one there and one here, as well as a number of other places where I feel at home and would be happy to live.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:06:52 +0000

I completely understand what you mean by feeling that Bangkok is home. We haven’t spent nearly as much time there as you and we don’t have a network of friends there, but we’ve transited through at least 10 times and have spent three Christmases there. Each time we arrive now, we relax – it feels like home to us as well. We stay in the same hotel and we know our neighborhood – where to get morning dim sum, where to get the best street pad thai, where to get the best Thai coffee, where to find wifi, etc. Now I’m getting “homesick”! Enjoy your time back home!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:04 +0000

Hey Matt, just wondering is there a way to get a longer visa than one month or do you have to leave the country every month?

When you did live there and worked, did you get a work visa?

Thanks

By: Prime

Prime — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:01:38 +0000

“As we grow older and mature, we change and sometimes the place we grew up in doesn’t change with us.” — not just the place, but travelers like me do outgrow old friends and sometimes i just don;t know why im still hanging out with them.

After living for five years in Singapore, I came back to the city of my birth – in Manila. I never considered Singapore my home, but I also feel an like an outsider in Manila. I guess I’m still in the process of finding my home….

By: flipnomad

flipnomad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:04:25 +0000

nice thoughts matt! made me miss the cheap but delicious pad thai and banana crepe with chocolate syrup in khao san…

By: Adriana

Adriana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:42:30 +0000

Not too long ago, I moved back home, to my home country, after almost 10 years abroad and that inspired me to write a post (on the portuguese blog, but will post on the english blog soon) about where home is. Every place I´ve spent a considerable amount of time has been home. I know exactly the feeling of pinpointing to several cities at home, yet know where you grew up will always be home. I guess that´s one of the reasons I started a blog – I needed yet another place to call home.
Great post!

By: jforestphotos

jforestphotos — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:38:23 +0000

I know exactly how you feel. Whenever I end up in Italy, everything just feels… right. The culture, the history, the amazing foods

I love the evening passeggiatta, the entire town out and about for an evening stroll.

Your posts consistently remind me that I’m bitten hard by the travel bug!