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Homesick?
We've got your remedy.
Q: How do you tell the Newfoundlanders when you get to heaven?
A: They're the ones that want to go home.
Something about this place, this people, this culture. No matter how far you stray, you're bound to Newfoundland with an invisible rope that draws you back.
From Scarborough to Sacramento to Sweden, many Newfoundland expatriates, are afflicted by a poorly understood phenomenon known as post-rock partum depression.
Clinical symptoms include sporadic emotional breakdowns when accordions play, glutting oneself on Vienna sausages, and confrontational encounters with grocery store managers that don't carry Mt. Scion savory.
So how do you cope with the ball of unsettlement in your stomach, that sense of displacement, that longing that occasionally sweeps through your soul?
We do have a few suggestions to help Newfoundlanders fight homesickness, namely:
- Fill the bathtub with salt, kelp and lobster - a convenient Atlantic Ocean in your own bathroom.
- Stay together - Newfoundlanders have an uncanny ability to find each other. In these people, you'll never lose home.
- Have a loved stand in the backyard with a flashlight affixed to their head replicating the sounds of a lighthouse.
- Have a mug-up in the city park.
- Have parties where no one is allowed to leave the kitchen.
- Ask the boss how he's, "Getting on, skipper?"
- Talk incessantly about the weather to anyone who will listen.
- Find a gravel quarry. Camp there.
- Ask if "there's either chance of getting some scrunchions" next time you go to the Olive Garden.
- Say hello to absolutely everyone you see at the mall.
- Tie a 12-point moose antler rack to the front of your mountain bike.
- To replicate capelin beaching, cover the children in tin foil and have them wriggle around the driveway.
- And the number one means to combat expatriate homesickness? Book a flight home through YQX. We'll put the kettle on.
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HOME IS JUST A FLICK AWAY
"Flight 9942 to Pound Cove, Bonavista, Herring Neck, Embree, Salvage and
Buchans is ready for boarding ..."
No matter which port, point, cove, cape, falls, tickle, brook, bay, bight, harbour, head, arm, neck or island you call home, Gander International Airport is just a flick away.
Mother's Sunday dinner. Salmon fishing season. Bakeapple picking. Christmas Holidays. Your third cousin's bachelor party. You really don't need an excuse to come home to the Rock. And we're willing to bet you are long overdue for a visit. Even if you were home last week.
We can get you home at competitive prices with the service, convenience and courtesy Gander International Airport was built upon.
Gander International Airport makes it more convenient (and less expensive!) to make that pilgrimage home, no matter where you claim your roots.
Take advantage of Gander's strategic central location, efficiency in passenger processing and unlimited $5 parking. We offer a seamless travel experience that's easy on the nerves and the wallet.
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GANDER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - YOUR AIRPORT TO THE OUTPORTS
Did you know that Gander is closer to the home origin of Newfoundland expatriates than any airport in the province? In fact, a Pulse Research survey indicated almost 40% of Newfoundland expatriates are from communities closer to Gander than any Newfoundland airport community.
We are sure you are eager to squeeze every precious moment out of your return trip home. Don't waste time in long ground transit - fly home through Gander International Airport. The Rock's right this way.
IF YOU'RE FLYING HOME, FLY GANDER - YOUR AIRPORT TO THE OUTPORTS.
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