The Decennium Return

How to complete The Decennium Return

Returning to a place a decade or more after you first saw it turns travel into a personal time capsule. You get to measure how the destination changed and how you did: same streets, different eyes.

1. Confirm your original visit date from old photos, passport stamps, or journals.
2. Choose a few specific spots you remember and plan to revisit them on purpose.
3. Recreate an old photo from the same angle for a direct then-and-now comparison.
4. Note what's gone and what's new: businesses, prices, your own reaction.

Tips

• Dig out old itineraries or receipts beforehand to jog specific memories.
• Ask locals what changed; they fill in gaps that photos miss.

What counts as done

You're standing in a place you first visited 10+ years earlier, with both dates documented.