During this long trip pangs of homesickness come suddenly. With every station the train take me further and further from the place I called my real home, the place were waking up in my bed was a routine I’m trying to escape. Am I an exile? No I am escaping exactly those elements of life I now suddenly long for. This sense of nostalgia grows stronger, and I start to feel that I have passed a frontier where all roads back are closed. Then you look at me, and I realize what I have found, and start to look forward again.
Only in your company will I dare to walk down this unknown road. The birchwood alley by Vasily Polenov
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Linked to Carpe Diem
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January 21, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Traveling by train really changes the way to think of things. Distances cloud, destinations become unsure and you find yourself simply just going for the ride to think. >KB
Thank you. yes this is the element I explore in this mental trip through Siberia.. I have not been on more than a 24 ride ever… but still you get into another mental state.
Oh I went across the length of Canada twice. Amazing thing itwas. >KB
Beautiful. Nostalgia can be fueled by the increasing distance but it may also be extinguished by the gaze of that someone.
-HA
We are always tiptoeing around our fears of going vs staying.
Imaginary train rides deep into the ice Tiaga; maybe you will see a snow leopard or white tiger from the steamy windows as you sip vodka and gobble stroganoff; I really dig this form, brother.
My style of haibun.. where I let american sentence sum it up… Like Basho meeting Ginsberg
companionship sure does make the unknown journey better.
You have elicited significant emotion with this haiga. I love it.
Travel certainly exercises the mind. Deep feelings in this.
Travel gives us such a sense of adventure, yet also a longing from home. You captured that perfectly!
to have someone to walk that road with…
priceless
Amazing…brilliant.
It is beautiful, developing with every line. But most of all to me speaks trust i can feel so strongly there.. Love and trust – something so vital being on an unknown road…
oh, I like this
very creative and well composed ~ carol, xxx
A brief turmoil, struggle, then the joy of companionship. I think the comments are testament to how much this is your style, these haibun written in this way.
Thank you Hamish… I will keep writing till the end this of this month…