Coming Out as a Traveler: How RTW Travel Affects Family and Work
I’m a strong advocate of telling friends and family sooner rather than later about long-term travel aspirations. It may seem a bit like “coming out.”…
I’m a strong advocate of telling friends and family sooner rather than later about long-term travel aspirations. It may seem a bit like “coming out.”…
My decision to travel long-term is in all likelihood a very complex one, and I often have trouble articulating the reasoning behind it. But I think it lies at the core of who I am.
It was my first experience not planning a trip down to the minute, and while there are places I think a little extra planning would have served us well, it was overall a great experience and made me feel a lot more comfortable with my long-term travel skills.
You can’t order up discoveries, epiphanies, and revelations like a burger and fries. That way of thinking is how shorter trips became a commodity.
The more you get out in the world, the more active you are, the more you realize your capabilities, and the mental and spiritual benefits to that are boundless.
A lot of people have this grossly over-romanticized vision of travel writing, where you get paid to jet around the world. Given the number of…