There definitely is a strong difference between 'home town' and 'place where you were born' (unless they are the same, I guess). I sort of think of the city where I grew up, and the city where my maternal family grew up (and where my mother, sister and all my maternal relatives live) as both being my home town, but at the same time they're not — I left one when I was eighteen, returned when I was 22 and found that it wasn't my home any more. The other, I lived in for a year when I was three, four years between the ages of eighteen and 22, and then nine months when I was 23 — and then I left the country and built a home in a new one. For me, home is an age, not a place, and home is other people.
I can well imagine that visitors to California, especially from Europe or Asia where everything is so much closer together, would struggle to have an accurate sense of distance. And yeah, that whole area is out of reach for me because I can't drive — I can only travel to places with decent public transport or that are entirely walkable.
Are they the kind of people who need to be kept busy or are they more chill? I don't know how the weather is right now but maybe a picnic at the park? I feel like if you visit a place multiple times, you can't expect to be wow'd with something brand new after a while, especially if there are restrictions.
The thing is, I think everyone would have been happy just hanging out and chatting, but they're the sort of people who always feel a visit must be A Visit in capital letters with lots of activities. We ended up doing a bunch of stuff that satisfied everyone, but I also think it left everyone very tired, and I myself was just completely stressed out the entire time.
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I can well imagine that visitors to California, especially from Europe or Asia where everything is so much closer together, would struggle to have an accurate sense of distance. And yeah, that whole area is out of reach for me because I can't drive — I can only travel to places with decent public transport or that are entirely walkable.
Are they the kind of people who need to be kept busy or are they more chill? I don't know how the weather is right now but maybe a picnic at the park? I feel like if you visit a place multiple times, you can't expect to be wow'd with something brand new after a while, especially if there are restrictions.
The thing is, I think everyone would have been happy just hanging out and chatting, but they're the sort of people who always feel a visit must be A Visit in capital letters with lots of activities. We ended up doing a bunch of stuff that satisfied everyone, but I also think it left everyone very tired, and I myself was just completely stressed out the entire time.