Regaining love of travel after disappointing trip?
So long story short... When I was 18, I finally took the backpacking trip I had dreamt about for years. I booked a round trip from the US to London and gave myself a full month to explore all I could of Europe. I was alone with only a carry on bag to keep me company. I left home with the excited energy and high expectations of a first-time world traveler, truly believing I could overcome the shyness and introversion I face at home to meet incredible people and make some great memories.
It wasn't but a week in that I started to feel this overwhelming loneliness. At first, I just chalked it up to culture shock and homesickness and told myself I would get over it, but it just held on. The beautiful places I was going and the amazing museums I was seeing just didn't seem all that great without someone to share them with. Plus I was having a really hard time relating to people in the hostels, mostly because I'm not the partying type and that seems to be the culture of cheap accommodation. After a few weeks, I had completely lost my motivation to explore and I ended up spending most of my time just reading at bookstores or cafes.
I don't mean to take away from the great experiences I DID have, but there was something about that trip that I'm scared to face again. I'm at a point where there are so many countries I still want to visit and so many things I want to do, but this last trip kind of turned me off from the idea of traveling abroad again.
Maybe this turned into a bit of a rant.. but has anyone else lost their love of travel after a hard trip?? How did you manage to get it back?
Submitted February 09, 2019 at 10:43PM by alotlefttolearn http://bit.ly/2MXfa7o
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