The beginning of the end

The beginning of the end -

I've been thinking about this topic for some time. In my head I have written and rewritten this post many times. I have to publish only away at the last minute to get back out. I hesitate not, because I did not know what to say, but because deep down I knew I was not ready to say it. But now that I give this post finally, I know it is to take time to publish.

In July I will celebrate in the street five years. One fateful day in 06, I hugged my parents farewell and started on a journey that has taken me around the world and a half times, I was able to teach in two different countries, playing poker professionally in Amsterdam, living in New York City , creating this amazing site, and meet some of the nicest people in the world.

But I have often wondered whether a person can go too long. Is there a time when we will be on the road overkill? My overall response is that you never get in your life too much travel. This is especially true if you are together with friends or someone to share the special moments. However, if you are traveling alone, as I believe the answer is yes, at some point, too much time on the road can take their toll.

Five years after I began traveling is still wonderful and amazing, but it is not the same. Some of the shine is gone. Yes, I meet great people, but every day, how often you can have the same: "Where are you from and what you do" conversation with other travelers? How often can you reinvent the wheel? How often can I start over? It is one thing to be traveling with friends, a girlfriend or a spouse, but it is to be surrounded another constantly by strangers every day of your life.

couple is a wonderful thing, and I am firmly convinced everyone it at least once in their lifetime should do, because it promotes great personal growth. I have learned so much about myself traveling on their own. But after so many years, it is finally worn on me. I have reached the point at which solo travel a lonely existence has become that I am not suitable for longer.

Last year I wrote about how I had lost my sense of wonder for the journey, and I needed a break. Life in New York City last summer gave me a much needed break, but it was also clear to me that I am missing on a lot when it comes to leading a sustainable lifestyle. I missed a fitness room, a kitchen, local waterholes, favorite restaurants, and a group of good friends to spend time with. I have the act of simply live somewhere. But whenever I thought about hiring, I started thinking about all the traveling to think I could take and the road ended inevitably calls me back.

However, when I left Central America, I realized that my days were numbered when not to go again, to go at the end of the trip I was excited somewhere but home to New York City. It's a feeling I have not had in a long time, and as I thought about a place when home for the first time in many years, I realized my time had finally come.

in life My motto is to live without regret, and despite the train a new life calls me, I know that I will always have regrets when I do two last things: Southeast Asia for the last travel time and what you do last major tour of Europe, which eventually includes the eastern block. In my mind, these trips have to do as a whole, not as small trips in this or that country.

So I left home today for my last trip around the world that take me to Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia before again sometime around March or April I Will 2012 Section in New York settle then? I dont know. Paris also sounds nice. Who can say what the future holds?

But I now know the top marks of the end. This is my last long-term travel. When this is done, I will have been to six years for a close up on the street. That is six years constantly on the move. Six years new beginnings. I have no regrets, but I'm ready, on the way to something new. I am prepared to be semi-nomadic. I am ready to be a place to make at home.

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I do not know what keeps you in the next year, but I know it now holds more opportunities than in recent years always done. One thing that I envy is travelers many out that with a set of "end date" on their journey, they have an excitement about them that I've recently lacked. You must there "anything get in" before it is too late. Me? I make every day. Travel is my day to day life. And just like my friends in Boston who never went the freedom trail, or my friends in New York City who have never visited the Statue of Liberty, I have made the things because: "I can always do it later." Therefore I can not pack my days with as much stuff as I used to. I have become a bit lazy. But now there is no real "later" for me. That's it.

Well, I have a new sense of urgency in my travels. It's like I all recapture my first trip repeatedly. Because with the end in view, I have them all in before it is too late. There is no time to lose, do not spend days behind the computer, no more "I'll get back." No, these nomadic journeys ended. Tourism will always be a part of my life, but desired life changes and I have to change with it. It's a brave new world again.

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