Despite my long hiatus from blogging, I am back yet again in an attempt to pick up where I left off last November.  Its been almost five months since, and despite my travels taking place predominantly from the armchair over the winter months, I am planning to hit the open road at the end of this month, quite literally.  Somewhat of sequel trip to my 2004 blacktop run to Key West, Florida from Toronto, Canada, this go around I'll be cutting a path down America via the I-95, the main highway that runs down most of the eastern seaboard of the United States.  In addition, this trip will be particularly special as it will include a three-day stay in Freeport, Bahamas (via Fort Lauderdale), my birth place and a country I haven't set foot on since I was less than a year old. 

 

My family immigrated to Canada from the Bahamas over three decades ago.  During all these years, I have only ever seen old photographs of the country I was born in, yet never visited nor seen with my own eyes.  I imagine it will all be a bit surreal when I finally return for the first time in 30 years at the end of this month, but feel this trip will be both a discovery and rediscovery of sorts, bringing everything full circle.  The last time I was in the Bahamas I crawled as a baby, but now return many years later to her shores, walking now as a man.