{"id":11247,"date":"2025-06-14T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=11247"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:15:36","slug":"coast-to-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/coast-to-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast to Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11247\" class=\"elementor elementor-11247\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-75e1f53 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75e1f53\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-600616b8\" data-id=\"600616b8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-4659831 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4659831\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6887087c\" data-id=\"6887087c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55d675e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"55d675e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11248\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-1-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da6b7b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"da6b7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Coast to Coast<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-351eaae5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"351eaae5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-524f8312\" data-id=\"524f8312\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-717ad918 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"717ad918\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-28afbcd7\" data-id=\"28afbcd7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ab9f5c5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ab9f5c5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Is it possible to love two very different places\u2014and to call them both home?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74cf6af5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74cf6af5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>By Sara Holston<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-5950744b\" data-id=\"5950744b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22705541 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22705541\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>A few weeks ago, in a Little Free Library, my goddaughter and her mom discovered a children\u2019s book that I was starting to think I had imagined from my own childhood. It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grandfather%27s_Journey\"><em>Grandfather\u2019s Journey<\/em><\/a>, and in it the narrator describes his grandfather\u2019s experiences moving back and forth between Japan and San Francisco over the course of his life, falling in love with both places and feeling always caught between the two. The narrator ends up following in his grandfather\u2019s footsteps to California and similarly finds himself torn between his love for both places. At the end of the book, he reflects: \u201cI return now and then, when I cannot still the longing in my heart. The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other.\u201d It\u2019s a sad story\u2014but it\u2019s also not.<\/p><p>Let me explain. I first read the story in second grade, and it must have resonated with me, because even though I couldn\u2019t remember the title or the details, I remembered the shape of the story all these years later. I suspect it\u2019s because when I first read it, I had just spent the summer in San Francisco with my family while my dad was working on an extended project there. At eight years old, I had been to very few places in the world, so I seized on the fact that I knew one of those cities\u2014I\u2019d been there, too! I had loved my summer there, so I imagined I understood these characters a little better. That sense of connection turned out to be prescient, and is probably why the story has stuck with me over the last twenty or so years: because it has become my story as well. I\u2019ve made the cross country move between San Francisco and the East Coast no less than four times now, and, despite an initial reluctance each time, I always seem to find myself feeling at home, even as I feel homesick for the coast I\u2019ve left. Home, I\u2019ve found, may be something that happens <em>to<\/em> you, rather than something that you choose. In my experience, at least, there\u2019s something inevitable about it.<\/p><p>I was born in Philadelphia, and I lived there with my parents and younger sister for the first twelve years of my life (the summer after second grade notwithstanding). I have so many memories of family barbecues and trips to neighborhood playgrounds, and I often felt like everywhere I went, I was surrounded by echoes of earlier chapters of my family\u2019s story, like the high school my mom attended and the church where my parents were married. As a kid, I didn\u2019t spend much time thinking seriously about what my life would look like when I grew up, but I would have been hard-pressed to imagine it anywhere else. My family had <em>always<\/em> been in Philadelphia, and it felt part of our DNA.<\/p><p>But after my sixth-grade year, we packed up and moved to San Francisco long-term. When my parents announced the impending move to us at the dinner table, it came as a huge shock. Occasional summers in other places for dad\u2019s job, sure\u2014that\u2019s just like an extended vacation. But moving? For<em>ever<\/em>? And not just to a new house, but to the other side of the country, a six-hour flight from everything we considered home. It felt like the ultimate plot twist\u2014I thought I knew where the story was going, but now I couldn\u2019t even picture the next few scenes.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ac742 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"70ac742\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11260\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-1-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c258e1b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c258e1b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e94bad9\" data-id=\"1e94bad9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-659df9bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"659df9bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-34e0a2a2\" data-id=\"34e0a2a2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1739cb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1739cb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-160ec74d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"160ec74d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>That\u2019s the thing about being present somewhere: invest your time and attention in a place for long enough and it starts to become familiar.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b0bce91\" data-id=\"1b0bce91\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e4d3064 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e4d3064\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>The adjustment did not come easily. If you\u2019re not familiar with these cities, let me assure you: they are <em>very <\/em>different. Many of the things that had always felt like a core part of my life were upended, as the climate shift was accompanied by a perhaps even greater cultural shift. I felt out-of-place, like everything around me was a reminder that I had come from somewhere else, and assailed with doubts: maybe I\u2019d never quite fit with the California vibe. Still missing the home I had left behind, I wasn\u2019t entirely sure I even wanted to belong. But over time, we put down new roots\u2014and I fell in love with the Bay Area. I don\u2019t remember, or maybe just can\u2019t explain, exactly how it happened. It wasn\u2019t something I thought much about, but slowly, as we found new favorite spots and hidden gems in the area, I started to feel less like an East Coaster living on the wrong side of the country. The simple act of becoming familiar with the area\u2014growing accustomed to and comfortable with the space and the rhythms of living there\u2014changed it for me forever.<\/p><p>I realized this during my junior year of high school, when my parents started contemplating a move back to the East Coast in pursuit of a different job opportunity for my dad. This time my sister and I were old enough that we were part of the conversation much further in advance. For a few weeks we were unsure whether my dad would take that job, and to the immense surprise of my inner twelve-year-old, I found myself desperately hoping we would stay. <em>This is home now<\/em>, I found myself thinking, over and over again, as I went for walks to process my thoughts. I admired the way the sun set behind the mountains and looked with new eyes on views of the neighborhood that had become so familiar. That had happened without any effort on my part\u2014or at least without my realizing that I had been putting in effort. That\u2019s the thing about being present somewhere: invest your time and attention in a place for long enough and it starts to become familiar. Then that familiarity\u2014the memories you\u2019ve formed in a place and your sense of connection to it\u2014starts to turn into love.<\/p><p>Ultimately, we did make the move back to the East Coast\u2014back, as it turns out, to the town just outside Philadelphia where I had grown up. Instead of celebrating the return to a place I had hated leaving, I prayed for the opportunity to come back to California when I graduated college. But by then, we were pretty well settled back in Philadelphia. Since I was already familiar with the area, it was easier to fall back into feeling like the East Coast was home than it had been to adjust to the West. My initial feelings of resentment toward the new house and neighborhood quickly faded as they became the place I returned to for every school break. We established new family traditions, and I even learned the secret short cut that made it possible to walk into town from our new house. When I started to think about where I might want to be long term, as a young adult, I found myself imagining life on the East Coast. I could satisfy that longing for California by visiting friends there, I told myself. Surely, I wasn\u2019t particularly driven to be there all the time.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-055ef6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"055ef6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11275\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Philly-2-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33d19d2f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33d19d2f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-66e4ca75\" data-id=\"66e4ca75\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-49103074 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"49103074\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-27839f24\" data-id=\"27839f24\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f6dd6ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4f6dd6ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a4a33fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a4a33fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I was putting so much more thought into the kind of life I wanted to build that I noticed when I started to be able to imagine it in California.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2b575a27\" data-id=\"2b575a27\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ab01aa5 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ab01aa5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>But you already know where this is going: the job I found\u2014the perfect job\u2014was back in San Francisco. It was the answer to all those prayers my senior year of high school. But now I didn\u2019t want those prayers answered. Nonetheless, I made the move across the country for the third time, once again determined that this stay would be short and that I would return to the East Coast after only a few years. Thinking of it that way meant that, though frustrating, this move felt less monumental. It wasn\u2019t derailing the story I had imagined for my life; it was just taking me on a brief detour.<\/p><p>The difference with this move, though, is that I <em>do<\/em> remember when and why I started to fall in love with the city (again). At first, I resisted being fully present in California, despite physically living there. While I loved my job and made friends among my coworkers and enjoyed having adventures in the city with my old friends, my heart was still back East. I still returned home often for family celebrations, and I still made a point to be regularly to be present for gatherings of my college communities back East.<\/p><p>But as I watched, the slow march of familiarity started to hook me in again. When my cousins came out to visit during my work week and asked for ideas of things to do and places to stop, I discovered that I had recommendations everywhere in the city. That familiarity gave rise to a different feeling: belonging. Even a kind of ownership. Realizing that I knew San Francisco made me feel like it was <em>my<\/em> city. And this time, I was more aware of the way this familiarity was leading my heart to put down roots. I could feel it happening. I was putting so much more thought into the kind of life I wanted to build that I noticed when I started to be able to imagine it in California.<\/p><p>Part of that was because some of the roots I established this time around were new, and fully my own. For example, I found a church community that was as perfect a fit for me as I\u2019ve ever encountered. It was easy to imagine being a member of this community not just for a few years, but for the long haul. I could imagine asking the priest there to officiate my one-day wedding, or calling on the members of my table group for prayer or for help in emergencies. I also stepped in to serve on the tech team, which tapped skills in sound engineering and live mixing that dated back to my high school years. It was the marriage of a passion and somewhat specialized expertise for which I no longer had an outlet, and a deep need in the church. The one-two punch of seeing how the church could play a role in the long-term story of my life <em>and<\/em> feeling like I had become an integral part of the life of the church prompted me to imagine what it would be like to stay in San Francisco. And as I also got involved in community support and outreach programs in The Tenderloin, I felt like I was starting to find ways to play a role in the life of the city as a citizen\u2014or at any rate, as something more than just another transient resident. It was with both great sorrow <em>and<\/em> great joy, therefore, that I crossed the continent again two years ago to enroll in graduate school in Boston. It meant leaving a place I had started to think could be home long-term. But it also meant the ability to be present with family and there for commitments that I would have been harder pressed to honor during this season of life. (And I also chose my summer internships to land me back in San Francisco for a few months of each year.)<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17b5b78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"17b5b78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11271\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SF-2-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-784d4a3f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"784d4a3f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48708462\" data-id=\"48708462\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-334c5197 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"334c5197\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ed9bc49\" data-id=\"7ed9bc49\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5aa63ce8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5aa63ce8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e3a0960 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e3a0960\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0It isn\u2019t what I would have chosen. It just happened, a consequence of the life I\u2019ve lived and the choices I\u2019ve made.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-546ee147\" data-id=\"546ee147\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa8ac5f elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fa8ac5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>What all of this told me is that, for me, a place starts to feel like home not just when it becomes a significant chapter of my story, but when I actively become part of the story being told there. It\u2019s how I fell in love with California the first time: by becoming fully integrated into my high school community and leaving a mark on the school and community there. Though I felt like part of the story of my college, Dartmouth (and still do), that\u2019s pretty different from being part of the story of the Upper Valley, the area where the college is located. College, after all, is <em>supposed<\/em> to be a short time in our lives, to be our home for a little while before we take what we\u2019ve learned out into the wide, wide world. Leaving your alma mater, at least for a while, is a natural part of the story. From there, it was an easy step to see that leaving, as much as staying, can be part of calling a place you love \u201chome.\u201d And my ongoing bicoastal journey has taught me that becoming part of the story of a place can happen whether we intend it to or not. It\u2019s presence that breeds familiarity, which means that you can\u2019t really become familiar with a place without being there, participating in the rhythms and communities of the place, becoming yourself part of the fabric of it. Moreover, taking the time to learn and grow comfortable in a place usually means the community starts to become familiar with you, too. And before you know it, you belong.<\/p><p>Like the characters in <em>Grandfather\u2019s Journey,<\/em> finding myself torn between two homes has become part of my story. It isn\u2019t what I would have chosen. It just happened, a consequence of the life I\u2019ve lived and the choices I\u2019ve made. I love the East Coast, from Philadelphia to Boston to New Hampshire, and I love San Francisco, too. And since I feel like part of the story of both places, choosing either one at any given time feels like choosing to be absent from significant moments in the story of the other. Maybe it is. And maybe someday, I\u2019ll figure out how to carry that feeling more easily. But either way, I know that I love both places, and I can\u2019t imagine my life being any other way.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-492083e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"492083e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11267\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/All-homes-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-14e08cc6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14e08cc6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9638ca3\" data-id=\"9638ca3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11033c20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11033c20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Illustrations by Sarah Clark, from photos by ActionVance on Unsplash (Philadelphia skyline), Daniel Abadia on Unsplash (rail cars), Joshua Sortino on Unsplash (Painted Ladies), Leo SERRAT on Unsplash (state house), Dan Mall on Unsplash (Reading Terminal Market), Alexey Komissarov on Unsplash (Golden Gate Bridge), Caleb George on Unsplash (Transamerica Pyramid), Devon Wellesley on Unsplash (Benjamin Franklin Bridge), Nico Smit on Unsplash (USA map), Josh Hild on Unsplash (San Francisco street), Bryan Angelo on Unsplash (Dilworth Park), Wei Zang on Unsplash (Baker-Berry Tower), Brett Wharton on Unsplash (Massachusetts State House), Jeremy Huang on Unsplash (Harvard)<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a812ac3\" data-id=\"1a812ac3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244deca5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"244deca5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Sara Holston<\/strong> is a student at HLS, and the current Managing Editor of <em>Fare Forward. <\/em><\/p><p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to love two very different places\u2014and to call them both home? 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