When I go back to Canada, I often go by one of a few houses I grew up in. I see some of the pine trees I planted back in 1980, and see the old neighbourhood. Only our next-door neighbour is still living there, and all the other houses have different families now. There is a forest next to my old house and me, my younger brother, and other kids from the neighbourhood used to play in the forest all day during the summer months. There was no cable tv, internet, and tv video games were pretty basic, so playing outside and playing sports were the ways we spent our summers. Thanks for writing this post, it brought me back 40 years and 10,000kms to Toronto.