When Travel Won’t Cooperate
It’s here. After your weeks, months or years of planning and saving it’s time to travel. Your ticket’s booked. Your bag is packed. You’re ready to reward all your hard work with the trip of a life time. Problem is Travel has a mind of its own. And while Travel is often beautiful and accommodating, sometimes it just won’t cooperate.
Overcome Your Fear of the Unknown
Traveling is wonderful. It’s fun. It’s exciting. It breaks your routine and may even help you grow as a person. But it’s also scary. The unknown is equal parts electrifying and intimidating. And traveling requires a whole slew of unknowns; unknown places, unknown people, unknown languages, foods, accommodation and transportation. The good news is that fear of the unknown can be overcome. You can come to love travel just by recognizing your own fear and facing it. You can transform your waah waah wanting into real, live doing.
Wanting vs. Doing: Make Traveling a Reality
Wanting and doing are two different things. Lots of people want to travel. Fewer do. It’s not because traveling is unattainable, it’s because the doing involved scares many of us away. Every travel blog I’ve seen has valid reasons to travel. Every travel blog has the list of common excuses people use to not travel. And every travel blog gives the obligatory disclaimer that I’ll give now: It’s ok to not travel. Traveling is expensive, time consuming and involves varying degrees of discomfort. If it’s not your thing, it’s not your thing. But if it is your thing – something you’ve wanted to do – then do it.
The Truly Weird of Traveling
Huh?
Put aside the PC for a moment, some things are just weird. And in travelling you’re bound to meet your fill of them. Try and chalk it up to cultural differences all you want but somewhere deep inside of you, just to the left of the part that tells you which fork to use for dessert, you know you’re witnessing strange in all its strangeness.
Go Travel to the City
When You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong
Time for me to eat my own words. After espousing the grandeur of the middle of nowhere and bashing the foolishness of spending Valentine’s Day at a fancy pants restaurant in the city, I went on to spend Valentine’s Day at a fancy pants restaurant in the city.
The Leaving Side of Travelling
There’s the excitement of the unknown that permeates travel books and guides and stories and travellers, themselves. There’s the electricity of planning out your next destination, packing your suitcase and studying maps even after you’ve memorized every river and road of your soon-to-be adventure. It’s this eagerness that propels you forward onto planes, trains and automobiles to traverse the great wide open world.
But in order to go some place new you have to leave some place old.
The Immature Traveller
I spy something that begins with the letter P.
People? Pillars? Pineapple?
Is this really how you’re spending your time in Israel/ New Zealand/ Bolivia? Playing I Spy? What’s this now? The Banana Fanana song?
You Still Can’t Dance
Who can resist someone with a foreign accent? They make asking for extra ketchup sound oh so exotic. You find yourself crossing rooms or grocery stores just to ask where they’re from. Every syllable they utter reminds you that they are cool.
One of the best parts of travelling overseas is suddenly finding that you are the one with this vocal ticket to cool-dom.
What Happens In Vegas Stays in Vegas…Unless It’s on Facebook
Isn’t it wonderful to throw caution to the wind and have a little uninhibited fun on vacation? To let your hair down, throw back a few drinks and release your inner break dancer? After all you’re miles from home and you’ll never see these people again. It’s great to let a crazier, more fun-loving you out of the bag when you’re travelling…until it shows up on Facebook.
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