Past

I find it amazing how a certain smell or sound can transport you instantly but briefly back to a place in the past. I was at the zoo today. There is this one spot that is animals of the arctic: wolves, bears, snow owl, caribou. To get to some of the animals, you have to walk across this wooden boardwalk. As I stepped across it and heard my feet on the boards and smelled the air I was taken back for just a second to Girl Scout camp in Alaska. For the briefest of seconds I was walking on the boardwalk from the kitchen to the rec hall. It made me a tiny bit homesick for Alaska.