Have you struggled to readjust to normal, mundane life after travelling? Has it opened a door in you that is always wanting to be on the road again?
I've found it rather hard to think of anything other than travelling since I got back. I was away for 5 months and I had the best year of my life. I couldn't describe how happy and content I felt, or how I got out of my comfort zone to do everything in life that I have been just dreaming about but never had to guts to actually do.
I wonder if travelling is something to get out of your system, because all it did was made me realise what my passion was - travelling, photography and blogging.
So with that, how do you go back to everyday life? The words...with great difficulty. However, I knew I wouldn't just stay in a country but have to take any poorly paid job, because in the long term that wouldn't make me happy. I worked hard for my qualifications and experience so when I come back to the UK, I looked for a job that would incorporate traveling whilst still using my skill set and technical knowledge and I actually found it.
This year, I'm planning on going to Nepal for 2 weeks in November, meet the monks and trek the Himalayas and do some crazy adventure sports. If I hadn't gone backpacking, im sure i would have just stayed in a 5 star resort eating lots! LOL So much has changed.
I might be ready to leave it all behind again to travel around the world in a few years, maybe when im 31, Ill conquer the world again but with some backpacking experience behind me. In the mean time, I will work in a job that I enjoy and travel to Europe on my staff discount when I eventually get it. Thats all I can do.
Then when I get back from my final travelling jaunt, I'll start behaving like an adult
Reply to this Oh please dont start behaving like an adult Connie - Peter Pan had it all worked out for the most part..except you can go back to neverland 😉. I was born travelling..in a tent at ningaloo during a cyclone actually - almost 45 years ago as my father used to catch tropical aquarium fish for a living. Eventually school time came around and our travels were confined to school holidays. I finished high school and worked for a couple of years to save enough to leave Australia on the day of my 18th bday and didnt come home for 17 months.
Back then there was not a lot of instant media other than watching Jacque Costeau and Attenborough documentaries about all these fascinating things and places. So i set off on my own on my 18bday and bummed through Asia and Europe. I came home and sat still for 3 months before heading off around Aus. Eventually I got married, had kids, divorced, went to uni, did my degrees (in the space of ten years!) and got a good job that allowed me to quench the ache for travel again as I have a very amicable shared custody situation. I tend to cram in 4 overseas trips a year to keep me sane. Now im in another relationship with someone I met on my travels and while he doesnt understand why I sometimes stare at the horizon and go to "a faraway place" in my head he acepts it.
And I understand that mustnt be easy for anyone to live with. To be honest, I feel half alive when im home having a normal life doing dishes and cooking and going to the cinemas instead of China.
He can only travel once a year due to work...maybe twice...but he has even said "Will you stop moping and go to bloody borneo or something for a week?"
I havent left Aus for 7 months......and its near on killing me. Im the person who gets annoyed with the wind and jumps on a plane or gets bored with whats on tv and heads to the airport and lands wherever the first plane goes.
Ive paid a high price for this travel bug. I hear the song cats in the cradle and cringe..knowing that when my oldest son broke his arm I was in Flores, when my youngest had a motorX accident i was in PNG. I wonder how they will see it even though they just say...well you're never home Mum!. I hope that one day they will travel with me but so far want to stay in Aus.
I often wonder what it is exactly im looking for.
Reply to this Cindy, Hopefully the kids will understand how much you love them but that you need to be who you are. I imagine by now they have accepted that.
7 months is a long time....maybe your friend is right... Borneo is not that far away. 😊
Connie,
In my opinion there are many, many people who are content to go to work, hang out with their families and travel a few hundred miles from home from time to time. They are happy.
You are not one of those people. I believe travel is part of your soul.... you will be traveling, thinking of traveling or planning on traveling. Accept it for what it is. Short jaunts nearby help until you can have the big trip.
Reply to this Yes it has. When I got married I had to squelch it, as he was a homebody. But a couple of years ago I started to travel again and want to do more and more. Then I Learned to ride motorcycle this past year. It is the same feeling, only worse. Once I get better on the bike I plan to take more trips on it.
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