The feeling of traveling

Hi everyone.

I was thinking today how I miss traveling. I haven't been around the globe lately and I truly miss it. My soul needs travel food and is hungry for some adventure.

Traveling

Through my student years, I've traveled every summer. Travelling was my passion and I just couldn’t wait for summer to come. With a friend or two, I’ve packed my backpack and we have traveled somewhere warm, mostly to South Europe. We usually didn’t have any big plans and that was the most exciting part of the trip.

Haarlem - Netherlands

It was an adventure, thus I don't travel that way anymore - meaning not knowing where I'll sleep or what my next stop will be. The most exciting part was just that - going into the unknown, leaving all behind ... we even had no cell phones at the time. When calling home, it was the phone booth type of a call ... heh .. If I look back, that was second best part - a total disconnection, pleasure, and adventure meeting new people and absorbing the new culture. Nobody knew where I was. Is that even possible nowadays?!

Every time going away I just needed a few days to disconnect myself, however soon after I was gone and smitten with a new place and it's people and their culture. I wasn't thinking about school or my loved ones. That's how disconnected I was. Do you know that feeling? Maybe it was that time of age, being young and with fewer obligations as today. Maybe both ...

Philadelphia - USA

Coming home

Each time coming home I wanted to prolong my being somewhere else and being someone else. As always when you lose control or more likely surrender yourself, you're a different person. More lively, smiling​ etc. It was so damn hard to get back to reality. Everything was waiting for me. However, of course,​ it was a ​ great thing traveling and exploring the unknown, thus let's not forget it's freaking awesome you have a home to go to. This is also something that got me thinking. The third great part is we are all social human beings with the need​ to interact​ and move around, hence we also have the same exact need to belong somewhere, to someone and to have a safe environment to go to, where the people are waiting for us and loving us for coming back home.

Travel, explore, dig deep, love, learn and make your life and your home a happy place to come to.

Enjoy!
Talk to you soon,
SR*

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