When do you know a place has truly become home?
For Becs Gold, it wasn't moving day, unpacking the last box, or even seeing the Colorado mountains outside her window for the first time. The realization came much later, during an ordinary Saturday hike with Norm.
By then, hiking in the mountains had simply become part of their life. Norm would walk a little faster while Becs inevitably stopped along the trail to take in another view. He knew she'd catch up. What she didn't fully understand at the time was why she kept stopping.
In this deeply personal episode of The Courage Code, Becs looks back at that hike and the life she and Norm had created in Colorado after the solo trip to Catalina that changed her understanding of freedom. As she remembers their weekends in the mountains, she also reflects on the life she'd known before, when beautiful places were somewhere you visited on vacation before returning to "real life."
Somewhere along that Colorado trail, something quietly shifted. Becs realized she wasn't trying to squeeze one more experience into a vacation or thinking about how many days remained before she had to leave. There was no suitcase waiting to be packed and no flight taking her back to somewhere else.
She lived there.
What began years earlier on Catalina had become real. Becs had created a life in a place that made her feel alive, and without realizing exactly when it happened, Colorado had become home.
The Road Home is a quiet conversation about the places that become part of us, the lives we build almost without noticing, and those ordinary moments that make us look around and realize just how far we've traveled.
If you've ever wondered what makes somewhere truly feel like home, come take a walk through the Colorado mountains with Becs and Norm. This one may leave you thinking about the place where you feel most like yourself.