Comments on: 10 Reasons People Get Addicted to Travel

By: Rachel Heller

Rachel Heller — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:02:31 +0000

In reply to Kathy. So am I! You're going to LOVE Hurtigruten!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:17:31 +0000

Never have I read anything that has resonated with me like the 10 Reasons article by Danny Newman. Every word expresses exactly how I feel about travel. Can’t believe I didn’t discover your blog until now. As soon as I get home I start planning my next trip. For me, the planning/research is almost as much fun as the trip itself. I also had the opportunity to live in The Netherlands outside Den Haag for 4 years many years go. I don’t know where I got my passion for travel; it feels like it’s been a part of me forever. When I was a kid, we only went to the grandparents and /or a small cottage on a beautiful lake in northern WI. Although I loved it, I was always so envious when school started and so many of my friends told their stories about Disneyland or Yellowstone. I first when to Europe when I was 20, back in the day when all the college kids were Eurailing and/or hitchhiking. My parents wouldn’t let me do that, so I
ended up taking a couple of French classes at the University of Geneva & traveling on the weekends. I was hooked from then on, & and now my adult daughters have inherited my love for travel. We started taking them out of the country when they were 8 & 11. Next trip for me: Hurtigruten coastal voyage in November w/ my younger daughter. Can’t wait. So glad I found you!

By: Rachel Heller

Rachel Heller — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:23:01 +0000

In reply to Pete.

I’ll never understand why other people feel they have a say in how you build your life. If you’re happy traveling, then travel. Now, if you WANT a family and kids, it’s true that there’s a time limit. But if you don’t, you don’t need them. And in any case it doesn’t need to stop you from traveling. I kept traveling with kids; it’s good for them to see the world. And I know what you mean about coming home – it can feel so limited, and people don’t even want to hear much about your travels either, unless they’re travelers themselves.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:01:12 +0000

I have been travelling for 14 years and still get a lot left in me…I’m nearly 40.

What freaks me out about the addiction is the parents/family pressure of “when are you going to settle, make some roots, get a real job and start a family?”, It sends me into extreme anxiety as it puts me on a crossroad of life…”is now the time or will it never happen? Can I do this for the rest of my life?” Will I be missing out if I don’t start a family?”

I agree the roughest is when I get home and it feels like I am taking a step back in life, and the thought of a 9-5 job gives me the willies and I end up bedridden…it’s like a big fish being placed back into the tiny tank for the rest of it’s life.

By: Rachel Heller

Rachel Heller — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:25:32 +0000

In reply to mike.

I get what you’re saying – I feel similar when I visit the US, where I grew up. It’s not home anymore. Living in a place changes you, and that slightly changed you doesn’t fit into the same space the old you fit into. I don’t feel like that’s sad, though. Things do change everywhere – you’re just looking at it from a different perspective than before.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:32:12 +0000

#10 … i lived abroad for 13 years in Asia and traveled a lot in that time. when I returned home i felt very uncomfortable. Like a tourist. There were times while living abroad that i would wake up, look out the window and this very visceral realization would hit me… im here in this place i live here. and i would feel so far from home. as the years went on that feeling would pass. but back home in the states i get that same sense of things. I feel like a tourist. its crazy. where I left feels more like home than it does at “home”. But at the same time, I dont want to go back to where I left, i just want to leave this place. It’s sad that no one has changed. everything is the same. the concerns of everyday things dont concern me. its going to take a long period of adaptation…

By: Ioana Stoica

Ioana Stoica — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:24:54 +0000

I can relate to every one of these reasons!! Great list 🙂 Travel just contributes to making people a better version of themselves, and I can’t imagine ever not being able to travel.