Wanderlust

Travel. Explore. Wander. Journey. Quotes. Part desire, part wonder, part experience.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Sometimes we have to travel to unknown places to find things we didn’t know we’d lost, and to repair parts of us we didn’t know were broken.

Holly Renee Miller (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[purplebuddhaproject]

“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life ”

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[classyhustleronline-deactivated]

zauberhaft by Oer-Wout

[poems-and-words]

[introverted-wanderer]

I kept thinking about maps, like the way sometimes when I was a kid I would look at atlases, and just the looking was kind of like being somewhere else.

John Green, Paper Towns

[youremytreasurebox]

[mayahan]

[shvtd0wn]

holy shit yes

[cliffedgeoftheworld]

[travel-quotes]

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Wally Lamb (via travel-quotes)

[nemophylous-deactivated20160126]

[nemophylous-deactivated20160126]

Planning your trip, doing all the research and working hard to save up enough money to actually go is the hardest part. Once you are on your way to making your dreams a reality, there is one final step I recommend before jumping in all the way: developing your travel identity. This might be a new...

[decisivo]

[drstephentrudeau]

[introverted-wanderer]

Real Talk: Post-Abroad Depression

For anyone that has been abroad for a lengthy period of time, especially those study abroad-ers out there, I think you already know what this is. This feeling. The post-abroad decline into nostalgia and wishing you were somewhere else. I feel you. I’m with you.

At the end of my study abroad experience, we had a day of reorientation workshops, all of which tried to tell us how hard it would be to come back. But it is one thing to hear it and another entirely to experience it.

I fell into that hole a lot harder than I thought I would. I wanted to spend all my days dreaming and plotting the next adventure. I wanted to go back to the days of moments filled with life. 

It doesn't help that the monotony of normal routine is also tinged with university stress.

This is the time where you get to know who your real friends are and when you rely on the support of your study abroad friends who are probably feeling the same way you are.

And then, eventually, when all the support in the world doesn’t seem to be helping you will ask yourself: How do I get out of this slump? How will I unstick myself and start going again?

And I will be honest--its probably going to be hard and it might take a while. But one thing I’ve heard consistently to beat the post-abroad blues is to return to/find one thing that you love and fill yourself with it. Maybe you like writing or art; maybe you want to drown yourself in a new coding sequence, or maybe you can lose yourself in volunteering and helping others. Whatever it is, immerse yourself in it, but don’t use it as a means of escape. 

Remember, it is okay to feel sad sometimes and nostalgia is normal. Let yourself feel it, and then slowly let it go.

You are not alone in this, travel friend.

Just keep going.

[introverted-wanderer]

Dear Traveler,

Do you feel it?

This restlessness, this preoccupied illness? This desire for something more?

Some may call it a disease, a sickness in yearning.

They say it is a bug that you catch, an illness so chronic that it gets worse with each treatment.

But I think it is an addiction to excitement and novelty where withdrawal feels like the monotonous ache of routine in a place you have known. Withdrawal feels a lot like being stuck. It feels a little like sadness. It feels a lot like wishing you were anywhere but here. Withdrawal is hard.

Withdrawal makes you do things like sign up for a weekend trip to Mexico to kayak for a quick fix. It pushes you to finally apply for that program in Guatemala for spring break. 

I have relapsed so many times that I am coming to realize I will be living with this addiction for the rest of my life.

But I kind of hope I will--I am in no hurry to seek treatment because I think my treatment lies at the root of my addiction. Because there is no other way to cure this restless sadness than to travel and travel some more.

Sincerely,

A travel addict.

[travel-quotes]

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Trenton Lee Stewart (via travel-quotes)

[princessofgenovia]

[amesonyearinchina-blog]

Encouraging travel quote: “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.” Listen to your heart!

[observando]

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

William Least Heat-Moon (via observando)