Where do you feel at home (outside of home)?

I'll go on about this, but not until tomorrow.

The movie theater followed by the library.

In a yoga class, and especially before the class begins.

on the empty big stage at C2.

I like to get there early when it is silent...

Have nothing like that since moving to New Mexico (I miss it). In California, I had three goto spots.

One was the beach town of Pacific Grove near Monterey where I would go to enjoy the monarch butterfly migration.

Second spot was a cabin in the mountain town of Arnold near Angels Camp. If I close my eyes I can still smell the fresh air and pine trees.

Third and all time favorite home away from home spot was the backyard of a friend who lived on a Pt. Reyes hillside overlooking Tomales Bay. Sometimes we flew kites in the wind, other times a bunch of us would just hang out in their huge hot tub and enjoy the sunset. A weekend visit there was the equivalent of a two week vacation elsewhere.

anywhere there are old books

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different corners of this studio make me breathe really deeply and allow me to relax



I've napped on the chaise (hidden under that collection of pillows)

At my sister's house, she makes me always welcome....also at the town near her which I lived in for one year and was the shopping town for my family when growing up. We lived in the country. I've been away for decades but for visits, it is still "home" to me.

A kosher deli. It's the smell. Aah. Home.

Funny so many people mention the smells -- I did not write that - but yeah the smells of the books.

I heard some where that the strongest memory for us humans is smells.

Not surprisingly...on almost any golf course. And for a mood of peace and relaxation...walking the beach or sitting in a sand chair at the Jersey shore.

Either of those places help make me "feel at home"...but there is no place like home. I am a homebody...and so is Nancy. Whether out in the backyard...sitting on the deck...or in the living room with the cats poking about...there ain't no place like home.

I'm with you Frank.

I worked hard to get a nice home, why wouldn't I want to be there to enjoy it?

That's partly why I feel at home in a yoga class. I can go in, not saying a word and no one thinks you're being anti-social. I can lay down on the floor and just be. Then I can do movements that in most other settings would look strange, and it's totally normal there.

hmm I thought as I began reading this -- just like the library - I can go in, not saying a word and no one thinks your're being anti-social.

Then it went all sour after that. On second thought -- I think I have seen this at the library where I used to live. So there it would be the norm - where I used to live the main library was walking distance from a homeless shelter. The atrium and grounds held many a colorful character.

Night and day to where I am now.

On my motorcycle, traveling down a country road, with no other vehicles.