Love of Place - One Year part 6
Ennie and I are in SoCal visiting my brother, her uncle and mom and dad.This is the first time that I got to see Pete's condo. I was originally worried that he was in something looks like LA -- you know, the LA that you see when you leave LAX. Thankfully, Thousand Oaks is not at all like that. He told me, but I guess it took seeing it for real to internalize it.Now, we're on our way down to Newport Beach -- going through the dreadfulness that is the LA I don't like.But this isn't what I'm writing about. Not directly at least. Talking to Pete was cool. His love of the area made us think about us.For the first time when we've been away from home we feel the draw of not just our home, but our city. Both of us have a possessiveness for Seattle that just didn't exist for Cleveland. Sure, it's nice to get home and have your stuff back (and our case our kitties!) and be in the familiar. The draw of home never applied to the area we lived.Driving around down here in California made us realize that both of us are longing not just for home, but also for Seattle.I think we found home.