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Feeling a bit apprehensive today. The reason: I'm going to visit my daughters in Greensboro, NC, tomorrow. This is the first time I'm seeing them since they moved from Connecticut. And what makes this even more difficult, is the fact that I've never been to Greensboro.

I have traveled literally around the globe, so going to a new place is in itself nothing new for me. But this is different — this is about spending a weekend with my daughters in their new hometown and I'm the visitor! This is the first time that I'm not taking them some place, but rather they're showing me their new world.

I miss them! I miss them a lot, but I also feel so distant somehow. It used to be that when I traveled, I would come back home to them. Now I travel awayto visit them. Sure, there are the almost daily phone calls, the Skype and IM sessions, and even occasional emails. But it's not the same thing as calling "home" to see how they are.

-martin.