"This week, I’ve been leaving my Airbnb at approximately 10:00 am everyday. “Here’s evidence of my growth,” I think, because I’m not forcing my regular 7/8 am schedule on my travel self." -- highkey my favourite line in this little article
i've never identified myself as someone who liked travel. airports are mostly just waiting. a two hour bus trip to see a monument for ten minutes doesn't seem right. cringe seeps in whenever i take a picture. hauling luggage and figuring out where to go and reading public transport systems in a language i cannot speak is frankly not an activity i'm too fond of. that being said, travel is one of those things that people so wholeheartedly swear by and have dreams of and take leave for and is generally accepted to be one of the more okay things to blow onerous amounts of money on. i have never heard anyone say they regretted travelling. i have only heard people say they regret not travelling as much when they were younger.
so perhaps it's actually your perspective that you outline here that i'm more looking for, one that fits more to me. i've never wholly understood travel to immerse into and lose yourself into a culture so far removed from your end - given it is a pretty cool thing. i have only more recently realised how travel, or more specifically creating a large physical distance, away from where you normally are really puts your mind at ease and at leisure - though that's always been counteracted by the fact that i personally (and probably you too in the past) am in a constant state of organising and optimising and maximising time spent no matter where i go. but what i do think i'd like travel for is a bit as you say: the feeling of 'finding yourself' in new places, which is something i can get more behind.
Hey! Thanks for taking the time and sharing some of your takeaways. Honestly it sounds like we were in a similar place when it came to traveling. I quickly learned that trying to travel the way others do just wasn't cutting it for me. Now when I go somewhere new, I'm making the place and experience my own which has created some of the most fulfilling memories and much needed breaks from regular life.
Hope you're also able to create your own "travel method" too that makes those experiences meaningful to you <3
"This week, I’ve been leaving my Airbnb at approximately 10:00 am everyday. “Here’s evidence of my growth,” I think, because I’m not forcing my regular 7/8 am schedule on my travel self." -- highkey my favourite line in this little article
i've never identified myself as someone who liked travel. airports are mostly just waiting. a two hour bus trip to see a monument for ten minutes doesn't seem right. cringe seeps in whenever i take a picture. hauling luggage and figuring out where to go and reading public transport systems in a language i cannot speak is frankly not an activity i'm too fond of. that being said, travel is one of those things that people so wholeheartedly swear by and have dreams of and take leave for and is generally accepted to be one of the more okay things to blow onerous amounts of money on. i have never heard anyone say they regretted travelling. i have only heard people say they regret not travelling as much when they were younger.
so perhaps it's actually your perspective that you outline here that i'm more looking for, one that fits more to me. i've never wholly understood travel to immerse into and lose yourself into a culture so far removed from your end - given it is a pretty cool thing. i have only more recently realised how travel, or more specifically creating a large physical distance, away from where you normally are really puts your mind at ease and at leisure - though that's always been counteracted by the fact that i personally (and probably you too in the past) am in a constant state of organising and optimising and maximising time spent no matter where i go. but what i do think i'd like travel for is a bit as you say: the feeling of 'finding yourself' in new places, which is something i can get more behind.
Hey! Thanks for taking the time and sharing some of your takeaways. Honestly it sounds like we were in a similar place when it came to traveling. I quickly learned that trying to travel the way others do just wasn't cutting it for me. Now when I go somewhere new, I'm making the place and experience my own which has created some of the most fulfilling memories and much needed breaks from regular life.
Hope you're also able to create your own "travel method" too that makes those experiences meaningful to you <3