I regularly hear people talking about how they wish they could travel more freely in their lives.
- I totally understand where they’re coming from – it’s awesome to take a break from life plus go off on an adventure to see some sights – but I also don’t feel they’re honestly realistic about what traveling entails.
As someone who travels often for work, I can tell you that it’s not all that it’s chalked up to be. Most likely, you won’t be flying first class. You won’t be staying in some beachfront villa with a private beach. And it’s unlikely that your photo gallery is filled with insta-perfect destination photos unless you devote endless hours to curating the perfect picture. In my experience, traveling has been a jarring plus unpleasant experience, for the most part. In the past two nights, for example, I’ve existed across several weather conditionss plus air hot plus cold temperatures. I started in the hot plus humid sub-tropical south only 48 hours ago. The temperature was balmy plus warm, plus there was a stillness to the air. A afternoon later, the temperature had dropped about 40 degrees in my current location. There was a lot of wind plus cold moisture on the ground adding an extra chill to the air, plus my buddy and I were nervously changing the indoor air temperature degree by degree. Flash forward to this week; we’ve arrived at our final destination plus the outdoor high is -14 degrees. We’ve put on all our heavy winter season clothes plus tried every trick in the book to hot up on this trip, but nothing can compare to simply existing in a moderately hot environment plus staying there.