What do you do when you miss traveling?

I am not sure this is the right forum to post this topic.

I came back home from a 50 months trip around the world last September. I still feel like a big part of me is still somewhere along the way. I am stock in the past and feel like everywhere I have been is better that home.

It would be easy to move there and I would maybe be satisfied or I might feel the same some months after. I am lucky and I am leaving again in 5 days for 5 months. Going to some new places and more places I have already been too several times.

There is always a new place after all.

We are all different people. A lot of the us on this forum are intense travelers. Some are doing many trips a year. They are staying somewhere for short periods and want to see as much as they can. Others are saving for years to live for a long period and are live for long periods. Some are just moving to one place for a long period and are going to a different places every other months or years. There is also some people who chose to live in a new country and are adapting to a new culture.

My question is how do you deal with your travel nostalgia? Is traveling now one of your priority? Is it part of what you are?

How long does it take you to go back to your routine life after a long trip? Reply to this

I think that is way i always have a few trips on the agenda. I absolutely love attempting to find new places to go, best flights to get there, waiting for cheap deals, finding a location i want a hotel then finding the hotel. I have to try and pace myself in looking and booking these things 😊)
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Travel if you can, that's what I say. Don't forget to enjoy and always try something new 😊 Reply to this

In response to: Msg #155204 Though I have never traveled as extensively or for as long as you have, I know how this feels. I have been told it is a part of reverse culture shock. After being abroad for a while it is hard to readjust to not moving and not being surprised by something new every day. But naming it doesn't really help, and I don't think that you ever really get over it.
If I cannot travel abroad I try to travel within my own country. I take weekend trips to new cities, or try to explore my own hometown as if it were a foreign country. Like others have said, I also like to plan my next trip! That's why I'm looking at blogs and seeing what other experiences look interesting. Reply to this

I have to agree with the Brinkleys again - theres no going back.

I dont adjust to life between trips...i exist...i work ten week blocks then have a couple of weeks off and go somewhere. I am my happiest when im beside an ocean on an island with not many people on it. I think because I interact each day with at least 100 people (im a lecturer) that solitude is almost an ache at times. I have teenage sons..another reason I crave that time just sittin staring out at the ocean and the moon and slipping under the sea. During those ten weeks I plan the next trip and book it and pay it off over a few weeks so i dont get smashed with a huge bill when i decide to go. Only 6 weeks and I can go to Fiji or Vanuatu..prob Vanuatu. I dont do cities and travelling here is majory expensive and to drive to ningaloo and dive would cost easily 5K. Reply to this

I got back from a long, and long dreamt about, trip over a year ago, and I'm still going through withdrawal. I handle it by taking short trips locally, looking at my pictures (tens of thousands of them!) when I feel particularly nostalgic, and reading blogs. Reply to this

I sit at my desk, browse through old photos, through Travelblog and consider the ways I can penny-pinch my way ever closer towards travel.

And in the meanwhile, I try to seek out new places in my own immediate vicinity that travelers from *elsewhere* would find interesting, and play tourist in my own town.

Edited for the second part for your question: Honestly - no. Traveling is not my top priority. I wish it could be, but I'm/we're at the stage in life where have to think beyond the immediate moment. To make sure steps are taken to establish a career and to establish a security of something to come back to, or fall back on, once the travels are over (or in-between them). We want to raise a family, eventually, and fully intend to travel with kids, but we can't do it unemployed or in debt. But in that light, building career prospects that enable travel is a top priority.
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I usually take about 6 week trips and after this time I want to go back home and visit with my family again. The same pretty much holds true for when I am home. After about 4 to 6 weeks I want to head out again. The fact is that I am downright comfortable at home and at ease with those around me so I do have to overcome a bit of inertia to get traveling again. I enjoy travel but I enjoy my time at home just as much. I have a family that loves me and likes having me around and when you travel people may be polite and friendly with you but they don’t love you.
I took early retirement in December 2010 and have been traveling off and on since. I use the time between trips to “digest” all that has transpired from the previous trip and see what I have learned from it I can apply to the next trips. Usually while I am traveling too much comes at me too fast for much time to just stop and think things over.
I invested the decade before I took early retirement in divesting myself with everything that would not fit in a 30 ft travel trailer, my bank account, or my laptop. For example I scanned all my favorite pictures from my photo albums and so I have them in my laptop wherever I go and can look at them on “slideshow” when I wish. I then gave all my albums to my sister. Nowadays with digital cameras of course I can keep all the pictures of all my trips with me wherever I go by using a My Passport portable hard drive. Of course I back everything up on another external hard drive when I am home.
I also make a Word file every day when I travel on the location I visit so I can have it available for future reference on future trips and use it for my blog and Facebook. I don’t trust to memory.
So basically between trips I digest the events of the last trip and see how the knowledge gained can be applied to future trips, visit with family while I am home, and do homework on future trips I am planning, as well as attend to the unavoidable details of life.
Since College Station, Texas is my current home base usually the approach of the Hot weather is my motivator to get moving. It is just too darn Hot and Humid in central Texas to stay here in summer. And there are too many cool and comfortable places I can go so why put up with the Hot Summers here. So usually from May to November I find somewhere else to be.

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I am already getting withdrawal symptoms from not travelling! What to do? Well, luckily I still have quite a few travel blogs to write, more than enough travel blogs from other bloggers to read and fortunately the planning of another trip in the not too distant future to plan. This is the time when I devour other travel photos and stories and start annoying Paul with the typical question: where are we going next...and when? Or 'How about this place?' Reply to this

Reading these really makes me wonder and think how will I feel when I am due to return home in 3 months' time. Time spent travelling at a home away from home, I guess, will very possibly makes me miss it so so much Reply to this