There's a scene in the movie Forest Gump when Forest is running along a lonely highway and then suddenly he stops, turns around and says, "I'm kinda tired, I think I'll go home." That's kind of what happened to me...somewhere in Bulgaria. I couldn't tell you where I was exactly, I was following signs rather than using a map, I only know I was headed for Thessaloniki, Greece when the overwhelming urge to go home just hit me. My pedaling slowed and I just stopped along the road and stood there looking out over the empty countryside. I was homesick, though why exactly I couldn't say; I can't even remember the last time I was homesick, but suddenly I missed the familiarity of English speaking people, I missed how much easier it is to do EVERYTHING
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