The Future Train to the Past

It's been more than two years since I've been back. Wait, scratch that. Two years since I left. I haven't even visited Toronto since I graduated from college.

It isn't that I don't want to go. It's that when I first moved to America, I needed to wait on getting a green card (in order to get back into the States), once I had that, I had to get my passport from Canada (my old one had expired — you guessed it — while I was waiting for my green card). The Passport Office swears they are still processing the application I sent in February. That's okay. I've got the patience.

I wonder, though — will I get back to old stomping grounds to discover most things have changed? I'm not so egotistic to demand that progress wait for my presence to continue, but what can I expect when I return? I don't even want to begin speculating, I'd do the research and no doubt be disappointed about a few things. Already, I've noted that any TTC tokens I may still have are invalid.

Although, hey, I do hope I still have some of those old dime-style tokens somewhere. Far be it from me to conceal my joy over transit ephemera.