We have been home for a little over a week now and I am still trying to process everything that we saw and did on the trip. I was told before I left on this trip that I wouldn’t be quite the same person when I got back and I have been thinking about that since I returned home. Here are a few things that have occurred to me in the last week and a half.
My world in Cambria County Pennsylvania seems smaller than it did before, I don’t enjoy it here less. It is just that I have seen now that my home is a small part of a much greater whole. I feel in touch with the rest of the world in a way that I did not before. I may exist in tiny Loretto, PA but now that I know another place and another way of living my perspective has been drawn back to reveal more.
Before this trip I could definitely be described as a “homebody”, my family are not generally travelers and I think that passed on to me. But I don’t think I can go back to that mode of living, I have a sort of restlessness to see things new after this trip. While I can’t just run off and leave the county whenever I want I intend to take more advantage of some of the unique diversions of our area. Sometime this July I intend to go visit Falling Waters. I also hope to do a guided tour of Gettysburg on horseback by the end of the summer and I am sure other things will occur to me as time goes by.
My diet has probably seen the most obvious change. Before this trip I ate about five different things. I had a sort of mental block that kept me from enjoying most any kind of vegetable. That is no longer the case. Given the hospitality of our hosts and the quality of the food they gave us I promised myself I would try anything that was put in front of me, and I did so. After a month of eating like that I find I can enjoy a much greater variety of food. I ate a pizza dinner with my parents the other day . Normally I would have turned up my nose at pizza covered with mushrooms, onions and every other vegetable. Now I actually ate the pizza…and gasp…. enjoyed it! I have even been eating salads almost every day since I came home, something I could never do before. I think the health of my diet and depth of my enjoyment of various foods has grown quite a bit because of this trip.
I think this post is already too long so I better stop for now.
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