sentimental

...a wishful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time." What is it then, if the time and place is before you were born and to places that...

B-17 'Sentimental Journey, in the early morning sun at CAF Airsho 2008