Day 74 - Same but Different

I got into The Pas at 0500 and hadn't really slept that much in the past 30 hours. I was fortunate enough to have the parents of an old school friend meet me at this crazy hour and went back out to their farm. Really great to see them after all these years and spent quite some time chatting away.

Later on during the day my old friend came down from about 100km away and it was fantastic to catch up. When you haven't seen people in 14 years, you notice how things change and how some things don't.

Went for a bit of a drive around the town and it was pretty trippy. When we were living here, we never had a car so walked and rode our bikes everywhere in the town. When you do this, are only just a teenager, tiny, it is amazing just how everything seems so much bigger than what it really is!

Some places where just like a time capsule - nothing had changed. What I saw today was exactly the same way it was 14 years ago. In the main commerical area of town, pretty much all the buildings where the same, same paint jobs and all, just the business inside the building had changed to something else.

The 'worst' change - a McDonalds being built across the road from where we use to live! Argh!!! Even small towns like this aren't immune from the reach of the golden arches. A couple of other places had new buildings and businesses but pretty much the same look and feel as when I was here all those years ago.

Just more chattin' and hangin' out and just great to be able to do so. By about 20:00 that night, I was beginning to crash - as I hadn't slept in almost 2 days due to travelling, time zones and on a little bit of a high from just being back in a childhood town which has a lot of fond memories.