It’s always with mixed emotions that I come away on one of these trips. As I said earlier, I love what I do. I get to see some amazing sights and get to see the planet from a rare and beautiful point of view and get paid for it. I sight-see in places I wouldn’t normally go to but as I am there I try to make the most of it. I get to stay in some really nice hotels (some less than average ones too) and have swum in many of the planet’s seas. It’s when I think of what I have left behind me at home that melancholy sinks in. I am a typical first time father apparently. I have pictures of Ruru all over the place. In my flight case, on my phone, in my lap top and of course in my mind’s eye. He has changed me as I think any child changes their parents so leaving him for even a couple of days raises very powerful emotions.
Of course I miss Maki while I am away but sometimes I think she can’t wait to get rid of me. Unlike the 9-5 that many people do, when I am off, I can be around for weeks at a time, 24-7, and even I annoy myself when I spend that amount of time with myself. It’s not just the evening meal a bit of TV and then off to bed with us. It is everything for a few days or weeks then very little contact for anything up to 3 weeks before I am back again disrupting the normal flow of things in the house. It’s a strange dynamic but it seems to work. Abscess makes the fart go Honda or is it absence makes the heart grow fonder, I can never remember these days.
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