Disclaimer: not mine, don't sue.
At Bag End
I have been planning this for months now. I want to leave the Shire and go on one last journey although even now, after all this preparation I don't know if I can go and simply leave all this behind. Mostly leaving the people is no problem. Friendships may have been years in the forging but I find that they having been meaning less and less to me as time passes. In that same time there been more and more of me that those here do not understand. Not even Frodo.
Frodo would leave the Shire behind in a heartbeat if I asked him to; but there is no reason to pull him away from everything and everyone he has ever known just because I have a desire to see the mountains one more time. The Shire is still Frodo's home and I will not ask him to leave it. I am not sure if the Shire is my home any more so it is time to go.
The Shire itself is what has held me here for so long. The green fields and trees are like no other place in Middle Earth, I am sure of that. It is home because it is where my heart is from and it will always be home although once I leave this time I do not expect to see it again. Home is not just where you live; it is where you feel at peace. I am not at peace here anymore, the road is calling me and I will follow it wherever it leads to the end of my days.