I'm Scottish, but have lived most of my life in England (Exiled in Babylon). Sometimes I wish I lived back in Scotland, just sometimes. (Weather can be awfull up there.)
My family, and most folks I know are down here. There is no real reason why I miss Scotland (Except its the Promised Land). We Scots are kinda like that.
If you are ever homesick for a place, where is it? and why?
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This is silly, Ian, but for the last number of years my son and I, along with others take a mini-golf vacation in Northern Michigan. I have a favorite course there, and some of the most enjoyable days of my life have been there with my son. Some days, I just ache to be there for 5 or 6 hours with the people I love. I am attaching a picture.
BTW - my mom's side of the family are McWherters. We Scots must stick together.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Occasionally I get homesick for SWNY state, especially during Concord grape and apple seasons. But I can't tolerate the winters (or late fall and early spring). Love where I live now. My family too is predominately Scottish - Wallace on both sides.
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That looks like a golf course I would love to play
I'm from the Wallace clan, my middle name is Wallace.
George Wallace here, 1/2 Scot and dutifully Reformed and Presbyterian(The Wallace is misleading; Paternally I am Ukrainian and Norwegian- Grand father changed it from Ungrean to sound more American when he join the US Army. Maternally I am a Whyte.)
I grew up in Colorado mostly in the Mountains, sometimes I really miss the cool of the morning - even in Summer - and the smell of pine on the breeze and having a fire at night.
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When I'm at work, I get homesick. I've only lived here just a little over 5 years, but I've never felt more at home anywhere. I guess I'm lucky because this is where I get to come every day.
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I have the same feeling, although I'm in NW Georgia instead of NE Georgia. Of all the places my wife and I have lived (7 states, 12 homes) this is our favorite.
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Colorado Springs. Yet, I am a big believer in the belief that you can't "go home" again. My wife and I lived a few really great years out there, and of course we loved the mountains and the weather, but none of the people we knew there still live there and that TIME of our lives was just as much a factor in my fondness of it as the place. I could go back to the place, but never back to that time in my life, so it really wouldn't be like going "home" after all.
I grew up spending summers and Christmas with cousins in the midwest. I will have a very strong sense of nostalgia when it comes to all things midwestern. This month as I visited them, it was so wonderful and made me wonder how can I keep these warm fuzzy feelings going will in PA the rest of the year. It hit me that I could listen to my cousins' favorite Christian radio station on-line at home. So now, I do and feel much happier.
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Ian, is Loch Loman calling you back to the old sod?
Not a Wallace or Scottish, though my name is Scott. I'm never really homesick for anywhere (I live in the city where I grew up) but I do sometimes get nostalgiac for places where I travelled when I was in the Navy. Sojourned for a time at the Presidio of Monterey (CA) and attended Monterey Peninsula COTN (where I was saved) and moved on to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX where I attended Trinity (I think. If anyone knows Ron, Terry or Theresa Long, say howdy for me). I have fond memories of both communities and would love to have the chance to visit someday.
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I've lived in more than 20 different places during my life time and would like to make a final tour and visit all of those ;laces from Washington to Indiana and North Dakota to Oklahoma and Arizona. There just ought to be an at large grant for old Geographers to travel. I have only visited across the Canadian border to Penticton and Kelona BC beyond the US borders.
Jim, there are tons of obscure grants. May be one like you're hoping for ... might involve writing about it, tho, too.
If not you, maybe someone of these NN guys who is good at research could help y'all look for one?
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That's because us Midwesterners are so warm and fuzzy! Except during football season.
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Looks a lot like parts of Scotland I've been in. BTW, I managed to bring a bit o' Scotland home with me. I'd just bought a baseball cap in Edinburgh and when I stepped out on Princess Street a Scots gull decided it was a good time to unload. I have traces of the organic, authentic residue on the bill of the cap. Living memorabilia.
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As long as I route for Purdue, they are super warm and fuzzy during college football season.
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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Don't know about the fuzzy part, but it isn't hard to have warm feelings in the parts of the midwest I've been to in the summer.
Good luck rooting for Purdue in football.
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Oh yeah! And some of my relatives never had AC either. Definitely WARM.
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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Meaning, they might not do well or meaning, since they aren't OSU, I am wasting my breath?
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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Indiana...don't care what anyone says...Gods backyard
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Wow, you must really love mini-golf.
Seriously, where in Northern Michigan was this picture taken?
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Preach it!Indiana...don't care what anyone says...Gods backyard
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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I remember only one moment when I came close to that feeling. It was during the 1997 GA in San Antonio. I was on my own, walking down the River Walk, watching a band play some Latin American music. I don't recall ever feeling so out of place, so European in a clearly non-European place. Never had that before or since.
But in general, I long for the place we were made for.
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Ohhh yes
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West Virginia?
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If this describes West Virginia, then it is: "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
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I was thinking of this:
I am the Lone Locust of the Apocalypse! Think of me when you look to the night sky!
Yes, I understood. I know my classics
I was trying to talk about a situation rather than a specific place. I probably should have been clearer. My apologies.
"No scripture can mean that God is not love, or that his mercy is not over all his works" (John Wesley - Free Grace, 26)
I've lived in New England all my life, mostly Vermont, some New Hampshire, a couple years in Boston, and a few months in CT as an infant. I've never been farther away than NYC in 1964, and Cleveland in 1965. The only place for which I've ever been (and still am) homesick is Jamaica, Vermont. I spent many weeks as a child and teenager at my grandparents' home, where my Dad grew up. My parents and grandparents are buried there. It's the first (earthly) place I think of when I hear the word "home". I look at pictures of the road leading to Grandma's house and can feel my bare feet on the dirt and smell the bread baking.
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Hans,
No need for an apology. You were very clear. That song just popped into my head.
I am the Lone Locust of the Apocalypse! Think of me when you look to the night sky!
From the time I moved away from Brisbane in 1987 until I returned in 2005 I was homesick and it seemed really odd because I didn't think I was the type. But the Scotish side of my heritage holds a strong place in the family legends and I will never be happy until I lay my eyes upon that soil - hope to do it next year. My daughter did it a couple of years ago and said she had the strangest feeling of being home. My mother was there a couple of years ago and will return next year. She actually located the store my great grandfather sold to migrate to Australia. That is a little mind boggling that it is still there.
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Indiana may be the backyard but the other I state, Idaho is God's Country and as I have said before here that it must be God's Country because only God's Country people would have the audacity to have a Hell's Canyon below the Seven Devils Mountains. Born in Nampa, Idaho, have lived in Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, North Dakota, Indiana, Oklahoma, Arizona but I am back in the state of my birth by choice. Tater Tot into a full grown Spud Nut.
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