On the Road Again…

I’ve packed my bags, and said goodbye to the ponies… this is it, I’m moving again…

For the second time in just under a year, I find all my belongings in a suitcase, my life packed into a rolling vessel… I’ve said goodbye to my house mates, I’ve said goodbye to some of the best friends a girl could ever wish for… Some people I have said goodbye to, probably for good, some I know without a doubt I will see again. I don’t know when I will next get to visit Ontario, but this place has become another home to me, somewhere I feel completely at ease, and I love being.

I have great friends, great housemates, and great horses.

Tomorrow I get on a bus, and head to Boston, another place I call home… Although my love for Boston will never die, it is no longer the only place I want to be, nor does it hold the only people I want to see… I will be spending a week in MA, before jumping on a plane, bound for Ireland, and more importantly, bound for everything I hold dear – my ponies, my pup and my family.

I don’t want to leave Kingston, but man, I’m ready to go home. I’m ready to stay home for a while, set down some roots, and just relax and get reacquainted with the country I grew up in… It feels like I have been away for an age…

I guess I have – I’m certainly not the same young woman who left Ireland in 2007… or even the same one who left in 2008… I’ve changed, I’ve matured, and the experiences I have had, I wouldn’t change one of them for the world….

Goodbye Kingston, Goodbye Queen’s, and Goodbye Canada… You’ve been wonderful, and I’m so glad to call myself a Queen’s Girl… so glad to consider this town a second home, and so grateful for the welcome you’ve given me.

xxx

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