"I wrote the song Kamloops back in 2021 after revisiting the old house where I had lived with my former partner in 2018. I had gone there to take a top-rope instructor course. One of the guys in the course happened to live in my old house. It came up in conversation when I mentioned that I used to live in Kamloops. He asked what area, and when I said Upper Sahali, he asked which street. I replied with the address. To his astonishment, he told me that he lived there. We agreed to go climbing after the course was finished. I had a few days before tree-planting season started, so I took him up on it. I asked if I could stop by and see the old house. It felt nostalgic, and there was a bit of sadness that came with it, as life does. While we were climbing, my later partner, who I would be going tree planting with, fell and sprained her ankle. During the drive back, we also hit a rock, which ruptured the oil pan. We ended up stranded on a dirt road south of Kamloops. Eventually, this led to us staying at the house for a few days while the vehicle was repaired and her ankle healed. There were all new people living there, it had become a communal home for outdoor students, but the energy was still the same and felt just as wholesome. I missed it. One day, I sat on the old porch beneath the cherry tree where I once picked cherries many moons ago. Facing the Thompson Valley hills, I played guitar, which I was still learning at the time. I only knew a few chords and some basic fingerpicking, but a small, melancholic melody came through, and the first words followed: “Same place but different at the same time.” In that moment, I knew what the song would be about. It was a beautiful time in my life, but as precious as it was, I felt called back to Saskatchewan. I had been away from my family for a long time, living a beautiful, adventurous life full of love. Still, something inside me felt a little missing, maybe that was my own to work through. So I decided to move back. It marked the end of a chapter, and truly the end of a romantic relationship. I tried to capture all of that in one of my first lyrical pieces." - Wade Lavallee