Travelling Withdrawals
October 13th 2011 11:04
I’m sick. Gravely ill, actually. And it’s not due to alcohol withdrawal after my recent 40-day bender overseas……. recovered from that debauchery in one week…… or a sexual disease I may (hopefully not) have picked up in Asia. The travel bug has bit. Real bad. Not unusual, I know. Most travellers return home, weary and lusting for the excitement travel offers in all its weird and wonderful forms. The soulless office work routine has even the chirpy shuddering with a grimace.
Holiday Blues, it’s called.
But for me, after a series of misguided adventures traversing the Baltic woods through to the Oriental tropics, it is so much more than the aforementioned “holiday blues”.
I’ve been thinking long and hard recently. What is the meaning of life? Work 40 hours a week chained to your desk, save for a ridiculous mortgage, buy a flash car, get hitched and if luck follows have some spare change for grog, smokes or vices that take your fancy?
Or is there scope to flush normality down the gurgler? Can one become a nomad? An adventurer abandoning life’s convention and scrutiny to experience the world’s richness and wonders. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Quit work, travel overseas and let the good times roll.
Not so easily, in fact.
To be continued……
Holiday Blues, it’s called.
But for me, after a series of misguided adventures traversing the Baltic woods through to the Oriental tropics, it is so much more than the aforementioned “holiday blues”.
I’ve been thinking long and hard recently. What is the meaning of life? Work 40 hours a week chained to your desk, save for a ridiculous mortgage, buy a flash car, get hitched and if luck follows have some spare change for grog, smokes or vices that take your fancy?
Or is there scope to flush normality down the gurgler? Can one become a nomad? An adventurer abandoning life’s convention and scrutiny to experience the world’s richness and wonders. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Quit work, travel overseas and let the good times roll.
Not so easily, in fact.
To be continued……
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