The final journey home from somewhere familiar contains two different meanings of return.

Going home and leaving home can happen in the same journey. When it is the last time you will make a familiar trip, the ordinary route becomes two things at once: the way back to where you live now, and the closing of a place that was also yours. That is why such a journey feels heavier than the distance explains.

With one of these coming, let it be a proper occasion rather than an errand. Take the longer way, stop where you would have stopped, tell someone with you what you are noticing. And afterwards, allow the day some room, since it was carrying more than travel.