The greatest journey isn't the one that takes you away, but the one that brings you back. He was finally home.
That night, he didn't call his manager to discuss the next leg of the tour. Instead, he booked a one-way flight.
He sat in the cramped bunk, clutching a lukewarm coffee, and looked at a photo tucked into the corner of the mirror. It was grainy—a picture of a sun-drenched porch in Puerto Rico, an old wooden guitar leaning against a wicker chair, and the smell of sea salt almost wafting off the paper.