It’s a bit overrated, in my estimation. I left to live in tropical destination. I rented a car a spent a week scoping the place out. I slept in a youth hostel but basically lived out of my rented car. I brought only a backpack with me.
I was back home in less than two weeks. I saw some of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen (beaches, etc.) and it was quite literally like a dream come true. But it got boring quick.
I missed being close to my family and I was dating someone at the time who I also missed a great deal—both played a big part in my discontentment. Ultimately however, I think the novelty of vagabonding wears off very quick for certain types of people, like me.
Plus, as some have pointed out, “working a job” is kind of a loose notion. Figure out a balance where you can find time to engage in things you enjoy and meet your needs for resources. Everyone “works”.
Maybe you didn’t go through the tourist traveller transistion, which precedes the travelller nomad transition.
The transition is made when the setting matters much less than the people and personalities you meet, and you start travelling to meet people, and arranging your travel plans according to the types of people, and activities you intend to do, not the places you want to go.
The nomad transition I never experienced myself, there was always a place to call “home”.
I think you are right about my failure to truly become nomadic. I therefore likely never found out if I could be happier as a roaming adventurer.
Though, to the point of your post, I’d argue a non-nomadic existent with consistent work seems to be the happy equilibrium for most personality types.
I think novelty wears off quick when I travel. And adding additional novelty only serves to remind me of the fact that while every new experience is novel, it also similar to other novel experiences, and therefore not that novel at all.
My current conclusion is, for my personality type, travel ends up to be a grass-is-greener sort of exercise where I am itching to go somewhere new, only to miss home—and all that home offers—soon after I leave. I’d posit most people are like this. That is why people have “jobs” and travel on 3-15 day vacations.
It’s a bit overrated, in my estimation. I left to live in tropical destination. I rented a car a spent a week scoping the place out. I slept in a youth hostel but basically lived out of my rented car. I brought only a backpack with me.
I was back home in less than two weeks. I saw some of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen (beaches, etc.) and it was quite literally like a dream come true. But it got boring quick.
I missed being close to my family and I was dating someone at the time who I also missed a great deal—both played a big part in my discontentment. Ultimately however, I think the novelty of vagabonding wears off very quick for certain types of people, like me.
Plus, as some have pointed out, “working a job” is kind of a loose notion. Figure out a balance where you can find time to engage in things you enjoy and meet your needs for resources. Everyone “works”.
Maybe you didn’t go through the tourist traveller transistion, which precedes the travelller nomad transition.
The transition is made when the setting matters much less than the people and personalities you meet, and you start travelling to meet people, and arranging your travel plans according to the types of people, and activities you intend to do, not the places you want to go.
The nomad transition I never experienced myself, there was always a place to call “home”.
I think you are right about my failure to truly become nomadic. I therefore likely never found out if I could be happier as a roaming adventurer.
Though, to the point of your post, I’d argue a non-nomadic existent with consistent work seems to be the happy equilibrium for most personality types.
I think novelty wears off quick when I travel. And adding additional novelty only serves to remind me of the fact that while every new experience is novel, it also similar to other novel experiences, and therefore not that novel at all.
My current conclusion is, for my personality type, travel ends up to be a grass-is-greener sort of exercise where I am itching to go somewhere new, only to miss home—and all that home offers—soon after I leave. I’d posit most people are like this. That is why people have “jobs” and travel on 3-15 day vacations.