March 17 -- Happy Saint Patrick's Day

742 from childhood home 378 from parents but thats not home

Furthest? ~55mi
Current? ~8mi

Furthest ~ 261 miles
Currently ~ 15.2 miles

And here’s a picture of it. Couple of things to note: That fenced thing on the left between the wood piles is a dog kennel we built for our collie Brandy about 40 years ago. It far outlived him obviously. The flagstone walkway was laid by my grandfather about 48 years ago. He was a master stone mason straight off the boat from Italy. He couldn’t pronounce my name for shit but he did damn good work. Looks like it’s held up well. The picture makes it look deceptively small but it’s a 4 bed 2.5 bath rancher with a fully finished basement that once held a game room (pool table, air hockey, pinball and bumper pool) AND my mother’s dance studio. The game room made it the place to be when we were young. The girls in leotards and tights made it the place to be once I realized girls weren’t icky. Sigh, I miss that house.

Furthest from childhood home: 1808 miles. Still the same. I miss the house but the neighborhood had been declining rapidly when my parents moved out in 2007, and that trajectory continued so nostalgia is all thats left.

Though I wonder if they got everything out of the attic when they moved, and what might still be up there…

Interesting question. I had to check to see how far away things were. It turns out that I’ve never lived further than 2000 miles or so away from any place I lived as a child. I’ve always lived in the western US (the furthest east I’ve ever lived was Denver CO). In fact, the list of states I’ve lived in is fairly short, for as much wandering as I did (until the past decade). California (SoCal only), Washington (South Eastern only), Colorado, Montana, and Utah. Not much of a list. I’ve been to nearly all the states, though, either from work, or from having relatives in them. No North or South Dakota, no Alaska, and no Hawaii, but every place else. Connecticut only because I got lost driving back to a hotel room when I was working in New Jersey, but it still counts.

Right now, I live in the same city I did as a little girl, in a house built on land that I saw wild horses on in those long ago times (65 years ago).

BTW, Mikibell, I love your post of the day that you’ve been doing.

Now: 473 mi
Furthest: 3480 mi

@mikibell

The furthest I have lived from home was over 10,000 miles away.

Where was this? Hope it was great.

Hmm… I lived many place, for a few months at a time (over 2100 miles); however, my longest term living away (couple years) was about 57 miles. Presently, about 7 miles.

I am thinking that if people in the military were deployed far from the US for any length of time, that counts as a place lived and some of those places should have been either very interesting, very hazardous, or both. I hope some current and ex-military will chime in here.

I lived in the same house all my life and my parents still live there, but I finally moved out last November. (I’m 25.) Other than living in dorms and an apartment at college, this is my first time living on my own. I live about 50 miles away from there now. The nice thing is, I moved close to my grandparents and some of my mom’s family. So it still feels pretty familiar.