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.
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.