How do you guys travel so much?

[Halloween Mike]

And i don't mean financially. Like this weekend i was in Montreal and yes i had fun but on Sunday morning i wanted so bad to be home .

I couldn't see myself leave home more than a few days. I did once but i was supose to move with these peoples to a different city (didn't worked cause they were not trustfull finiancially and im happy i learned it fast enough as they borough money from me before we moved together and couldnt refund... I had to be ...persuasive... (Yes did got it back...but it hurted as i considered them friends).

But overall i know peoples travel weeks...months.. and maybe its just not for me .

Im that dude who like to be in his stuff . Am i the only one? I know lots of you like to travel. Maybe its different on a bigger scale?

 

[CLOUD 500]

Unless I am eligible for two months paid vacation, it is not likely I will travel. You have a good question. Traveling is so stressful and tiring that you need a vacation from a vacation. I find my job takes up all my personal time, the days off I have is used to do groceries then to relax. So when I am on vacation, just having free time to do whatever I want when I want is good enough without the obligations of going to work and being on time.

 

[Thor Jr]

My friends do not like going on vacation with me, especially camping, i have been barred from camping. I bring everything with me, I go by the notion that " its better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it". I do go overboard sometimes, I bought an 8 person tent and there was only 3 of us. What can i say, i sleep in a king bed, i need space. lol.
I always overpack when i go on vacation. I don't want to get someplace and they don't have what i need.
Even when i go to a hotel for an overnight stay, that i intend on having company, i bring a DVD player, wine glasses, a cooler with an assortment of wines and foods, an assortment of movies and clothes for 3 days.

 

[Sylar]

I used to travel a lot for work but have recently slowed down. I enjoyed the travel life and still do so today. You get used to sleeping in hotels rather quickly.

 

[arrowdec]

If you don't have a lot of love for the city you live in, that can be an encouraging factor for travelling. In particular when paired with a full remote position, as a number of people have today.

Personally speaking I travel a decent amount post-COVID as there's friends and things I want to do that I simply don't have in Montréal.

 

[Fradi]

Traveling in the beginning for work was fun because you got to see many places around the world for free, but after awhile it gets to be a drag and most times you spend 90% of your time in the hotel and at the company you are visiting and restaurants. Your day ends up being 10-12 hours of work everyday while on a trip, most times you get back to your hotel at 10-11pm after dinner with company execs ( which can be quite taxing and not always fun ) and then you are left writing up reports for the next hour or two.
This type of travelling is not all it is cracked up to be, you have seen one hotel and restaurant you have seen them all doesn’t matter if it is a 5 star or not and you start missing your wife and kids
Travelling for pleasure with your family is totally different! that I could do always.

 

[Doc Holliday]

And i don't mean financially. Like this weekend i was in Montreal and yes i had fun but on Sunday morning i wanted so bad to be home .

I couldn't see myself leave home more than a few days.

I totally get what you mean but i’ve only felt like this over the past few years. I thank covid for this. Prior to covid i used to travel regularly. There were years when i’d take a week-long trip to Mtl every month or two. And it would be more frequent during the summer months. I would also travel to other places like Toronto & elsewhere. But Mtl was by far my favorite. But my life was quite different back then. I had a stressful job at the time with very long hours. The trips to Mtl or elsewhere were an escape for me. Therapy. I also didn’t own a house for many of those years. But i learned since that owning your own place is quite different. There really is no place like home. My trips are much more less frequent now because the reasons that would lead me to travel are no more. I lead a stress-free life & i enjoy spending my time at home tremendously. I love doing things aroumd the house & relaxing in my garage. Recently i was away traveling for a week & although i had a wonderful time getting back home to my routine felt great. And yes travelling takes a lot out of you & the older we get traveling gets harder. Although i still enjoy traveling i’ve realized that being home feels much better. However i do realize that if i still lived in an apartment imstead of owning my own place i’d more than likely feel differently about it. HOME SWEET HOME!

 

[envelopes]

To each their own. I totally understand what you mean. There are some weeks I feel that way. And some places that make me feel that way.

But I backpacked/traveled/vanlifed for 10+ years since I was 18. I spent most of my 20s backpacking Asia/Europe. At first I hated it, but I got used to being free of my belongings.

Even these days, I'm very minimalist. My condo has the bare necessities and I actually have a 40L go-bag ready (and I use it very frequently, when I wake up one morning and just want to be in Montreal... or Florida... or just somewhere else, I book a flight, grab my bag, and go).

I've just gotten so used to being on-the-go that I don't mind it at all. I used to feel the "I wish I was home" but not anymore- ----- actually.... what do you mean by "be in your stuff"?

Im that dude who like to be in his stuff . Am i the only one? I know lots of you like to travel. Maybe its different on a bigger scale?

 

[Sylar]

I actually have a 40L go-bag ready

My man

 

[mauricevachon]

Travel is a total waste of time.
You meet the exact same people in:

- Universities,
- Business conferences,
- Starbucks, and
- Strip club/SP dens

... in Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, New York and Shanghai.

 

[IamNY]

I totally get what you mean but i’ve only felt like this over the past few years. I thank covid for this. Prior to covid i used to travel regularly. There were years when i’d take a week-long trip to Mtl every month or two. And it would be more frequent during the summer months. I would also travel to other places like Toronto & elsewhere. But Mtl was by far my favorite. But my life was quite different back then. I had a stressful job at the time with very long hours. The trips to Mtl or elsewhere were an escape for me. Therapy. I also didn’t own a house for many of those years. But i learned since that owning your own place is quite different. There really is no place like home. My trips are much more less frequent now because the reasons that would lead me to travel are no more. I lead a stress-free life & i enjoy spending my time at home tremendously. I love doing things aroumd the house & relaxing in my garage. Recently i was away traveling for a week & although i had a wonderful time getting back home to my routine felt great. And yes travelling takes a lot out of you & the older we get traveling gets harder. Although i still enjoy traveling i’ve realized that being home feels much better. However i do realize that if i still lived in an apartment imstead of owning my own place i’d more than likely feel differently about it. HOME SWEET HOME!

I'm the opposite DH. Because of COVID I now have a remote job so I can plug in and work anywhere. The problem I have with Montreal is that it has changed so drastically from pre COVID to post COVID that I very much feel like a stranger in one of my favorite hobbying spots. I'm going to sound like one of those old timers who long for the old days, but the town really hasn't bounced back and the escort scene has forever changed for the worse.

 

[EagerBeaver]

For me, travel has always been necessary as a way for me to get my mind off work/career/stress at home, to unwind, relax and recharge batteries. And if I take even a long weekend, Wednesday to Sunday, I will come back home fully recharged. That's why I travel. I have not travelled to Montreal since 2019- before Covid. Before this 5 year absence, I was in Montreal every single year from 2002 through 2019, sometimes as many as 6 times a year, although it petered out at the end.

Since Covid, all my travel has been within the USA, with multiple trips to New York, Maine and Florida, as well as Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The highlight vacations were to Portland, Maine, and Newport, Rhode Island, which are smaller, older port cities with a lot of history, interesting museums and great restaurants. A really great experience I had in Portland, Maine, was a 3 hour culinary walking tour through the streets, bars and restaurants of the Old Port. It was the best $100 I ever spent in my life. We stopped at probably 6 or 7 restaurants and one ice cream parlor (at the end), ate various foods including muffins, pizza, lobster rolls, clam chowder, oysters, seafood tacos and ice cream, drank some local beers, and in between learned from our tour guide the history of some of the buildings, businesses and neighborhoods in the Old Port. For example, one thing I learned on that tour is that one of the restaurants in the Old Port, Blyth and Burrows, is named after (respectively) the English and American commanders both killed in a naval battle in Portland Harbor during the War of 1812. Blyth was only 30 years old, and Burrows 28, at the time of their deaths. Indeed, the restaurant's website's home page honors these 2 fallen warriors, which is very cool (scroll down to read tribute):

Portland, Maine Craft Cocktail Bar & Restaurant | Blyth & Burrows

Sophisticated cocktail bar in the Old Port district of Portland, Maine, rooted in local maritime history and the art of the cocktail experience.

www.blythandburrows.com

That's the kind of thing I like to do when I travel. I never did a culinary walking tour in Montreal, but I am sure they are offered, and if I ever go back to Montreal this summer, it is something I would definitely look into.

 

[LookAlike]

Travel is a total waste of time.
You meet the exact same people in:

- Universities,
- Business conferences,
- Starbucks, and
- Strip club/SP dens

... in Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, New York and Shanghai.

Wow … I’m speachless !

 

[Doc Holliday]

The problem I have with Montreal is that it has changed so drastically from pre COVID to post COVID that I very much feel like a stranger in one of my favorite hobbying spots. I'm going to sound like one of those old timers who long for the old days, but the town really hasn't bounced back and the escort scene has forever changed for the worse.

Amen to that. The sex scene is totally different, many restaurants & bars i used to go to are no more & hotel rates are among the highest in the country. It’s almost like we’ve entered an alternate reality version of what Mtl was once like not that many years ago.