During my life I´ve been doing very active “couch surfing.” I claim to be an expert to make the best trip plans to – just say where you want.
I am happy to plan a trip for you, because I am not able to implement all my plans for myself. I found an old high school essay, where I said loving travelling. I also find another column from my university time, where I said loving travelling. Then I found old writing from my Facebook site, where I said NOW I am going to travel so much more. After few years I commented my on post by saying: oh, I did not changed at all. I am not still travelling enough.
In this blog post I am shortly trying to figure out my traveler identity: why I love travelling but at the same time feeling I am not abable to do it enough.
A traveler´s mind
My father has a traveler mind. Also his father had a traveler mind. I think I am my father´s daughter and I have this same traveler mind. When I was young, we lived in the middle of recession. Despite that my father organized a lot of nice travel memories for our family. I remember how we made a lot of trips with caravan for example and couple of great trip abroad. At 6th grade we made a class trip to Rhodes. My father were also there.
After that I´ve travelled every few years, and almost always been the one who plans these trips or just the on who says “yes!” , if someone asks would you like to come with. I love to travel in my home country and abroad. My mind and my heart remembers the views and the sounds and the smells of the flowers forever.
I really am very good to finding best flights and hotels or travel packages. I spend hours and hours surfing different travel agency sites seeking the best and most apt packages to different places. I plan trips for:
- me and my family
- me and my husband
- me and my friends
- me and my doughters
- me and my childhood family
- my friends
- my relatives
- my daughter and her friends
- etc.
So what is my problem with not these plans mostly not going to happen in my case?
I am not good to save money, so I´ve spend my money straightly to traveling. Maybe money is one reason I am not going to all the trips I´d like to. I need to get money first and then go.
And there is the problem number two: I need to work to get some money for traveling. There is no enough time for travelling. So many work gives only couple of weeks holiday possibility. Also these holidays are not in synchrony with people I´d like to travel with.
Maybe I am also a pit dreamer. I just love to dream and plan. All the dreams are not meant to happen.
So what to do to this problem? Is it a problem at all?
Especially during the Covid-19 pandemic I´ve made some thought work about my traveler´s mind. I´ve stated that my mind needs this all-the-time-planning. My heart is made for travelling, even doing it mostly only from my couch. I started also to work in tourism, I started tourism studies and now I am writing a blog post about travelling. So somehow I am all the time anywhere in my mind.
I think now I´ve done something more for my dreams and maybe soon in the future next step is to step out of my living room and travel more. Until then I could try Virtual Travelling also.
