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[yaoobruni]

The thing with travel is this: the more you travel, the more likely you are to spend much of your time with people who also travel a lot. I've reached the point in my life where my closest friends are more or less evenly split between two categories: people who I see in the Berkshires (people who live there now, or once lived there and come to

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[minyan]

Someone reminded me this weekend that it's possible to keep in touch well from halfway around the world. I didn't take the suggestion well - mostly because the speaker was trying to convince me to move to Virginia, and like you, I also want to see and touch the people I keep hold of long distance. But there's still some truth in it. I've gotten to know you and Kassrachel better while I've been here.

If you choose to make any change, it sounds as though the change may also make itself in a way - you may make the change because the way you feel about connecting to people, or the ways you want to spend your time, gradually shift. You've said a couple of times in the last few months, I'm not sure I can do this for the rest of my life. Would you have said that a year ago, or five? (I've found myself saying things I would't have said a year ago, recently; that's why I ask

[outsidetheparty]

Ok, the belt loop thing is hilarious.

And I've never even heard of the black card. It's like the freemasons. Every time you think you've reached the inner circle it turns out there's another secret level above you.

I'm trying to imagine what travel methadone would be like: we could lock you in a closet for a few hours every day and show you movies you've seen eight times with no sound. And then we'd yank your belt loop off.

As for saying goodbye to the road warriors, that part's easy. They're road warriors. They can come to you.

[tildequinn]

I bet you'd be okay either way, it's amazing what humans get used to. I bet if you stopped tavelling, in six months you'd love your life and wonder how you ever did all that flying.

But I'm not buying the flying as heroin thing until I hear someone say "Dude, sometimes I need a transatlantic flight just to feel normal."