Changing the travel style

Changing the travel style -

Every time someone asks me what kind of traveler I am, I say always, I'm a backpacker. It's what I do since I left home in 06, I stay in hostels, live in dormitories, stay with walkers, travel with them cheap food, cheap travel, and all that with my big backpack faithful. In many ways, I am a budget traveler, but overall I consider myself from the backpacker mentality.

But things are changing. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's income. Whatever it is, I feel that my travel style changed slowly and that the worst thing is that I know it. I've already upgraded me to Flashpacker. You know - one of those travelers who a little more money, much more fancy electronics, and not always looking for the cheapest accommodation or eat

When I first started traveling, I always walked. for the cheapest option. Large dormitories. Eating and Drinking in hostels. The buses. Hitching. Night trains. Constant haggling. Street food. Stealing additional rolls for breakfast. Well, I go for smaller dorms, I do not mind flying, and I do not like to travel to the country to cook pasta in a hostel. (I dine out. A lot.)

I'm not the 21-year-old child out on a finite budget. When most backpackers around the world to head off, they have a limited budget. They saved a certain amount of money, and if that is output, the ride is over. But for me, I make my money at this website, so I would not that have the limitation. Money flows constantly, because I work and travel at the same time.

This has said to some upscaling on my travels and, frankly, I'm not sure if I like it. I like to be the vagabond backpacking travelers. I think it's an organic way, the world, and a better way to see, to communicate with the locals and get the local culture to discover. My travel philosophy is to live like a local. The closer you live as the locals do, the more understanding of their culture you may have.

However, the more you upscale your travel, the more you lose, the local pulse. It's hard to explore local life fly from place to grab. Sitting in a fancy restaurant or take private buses to a country separated from the majority of the local population. but you do not know about. Nevertheless, I find myself more and more upscaling.

After so many years of traveling, I just want some conveniences. Part of me (especially the frugal extracts) is to remain always on the lookout for the best place, but when I find it and stay there, I find myself unhappy and unable to sleep able. I can not do the cheap bed more easily.

may have a part of it to do with the fact that I live for a while in Asia and in this area of ​​the world feels more like home than a lie I travel. But even when I go away, I feel like I'm away from my roots. I want more than I did in the past.

I do not like it. It makes me wonder - what moves a person away from their original travel style? Older? Income? Relationship? A combination of all? Can you still the tramp were you when you were younger? If you want to change, you can change back? Or should we accept it only as another part of life? Can we just a modified Backpack living lifestyle, or will be a point where I hostels and places like Khao San Road still without?

I have no good answer to any of these questions.

You are only as old as you feel. And I do not feel old. I enjoy hanging there with the college aged backpackers - they keep me young. But as I get older, and I can afford it, more things to do and eat at better places, I want more creature comforts. That moved me away from my old backpack lifestyle and I'm not sure, I just want to travel to renounce style.

I see change in front of me every day my travel style, but I'm not sure how the rising tide to stop.

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