I lost my traveler advantage

I lost my traveler advantage

After a year and a half at home, Kia finds traveling a little more challenging than before

There is a certain amount of hybris that goes hand in hand with a travel style. I do not speak of the curated selfies of Instagram or endless filtered sunsets, but of trips that lie in front of it: the hard-boiled journalist who snaps his travel bag on the way to a conflict area, the top-class CEO, which gets another red eye or the "third", which often flies back and forth between three cities.

These people tend to wear travel like an honor badge. They are efficient in the queue at the airport and ask those who are slower. They are aggressively armed with their travel tips and with flight miles. They are adaptable, practical, unshakable - or at least like to believe it. They were in the place they want to go and saw what they want to see and never shy away from telling them.

How should I know? Because I'm one of them. Or at least I was.

As part of Atlas & Boots, I used to travel four to six months every year - until the pandemic broke out. As it looks, I have not traveled abroad for 14 months. I thought I was relieved to take the street again, but I seem to have lost my travel spirit.

It is not the case that I'm afraid of returning to the world (as apparently every columnist in the country). Rather, I lost this edge, which familiarized me around.

Pio3/ShutterstockA short trip to London proved to be challenging

Last week Peter and I went on a short trip to London and stayed in three different locations within a week. I felt annoyed and stressed because I always had to unpack and unpack. I didn't like to have the wrong coat, the wrong shoes or the wrong bag for my various obligations - something that I usually don't worry about when I pack the street.

I didn't like to sleep on too soft or too hard pillows or to use a hair dryer that was not mine. I got cold and hungry when I stuck on a platform, and hot and uncomfortable when I wore my luggage up a staircase.

Travel has been part of me for more or less a decade. Whether I sleep with snakes in an outback or rats on an active volcano, I could grit my teeth and continue. On the trip last week, however, I was put to the test of little things: the somewhat smaller bathroom than at home, the disappointing breakfast in a hackney café. I realized that I stayed at home last year and lost part of my identity.

Atlas & Boots

Atlas & Boots

Atlas & Boots

"Travel has been part of me for a long time"

Years ago I wrote about the greatest myth of travel. In it I explained that there is absolutely nothing wrong not to want to travel. I also indicated that I would never personally get tired, so I'm surprised to find something else.

In my opinion, the solution is to take the street again. I don't think it will be as effortless as I would like it to be. I am sure that I will fight without my comfort, and I dare to say that other passengers become more than usual with their lying seats, loud chewing and spreading, but given the fact that travel has played such a big role in my life full and fulfilling life, I think I will learn to deal with it again.

We'll see you out there.

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