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Overcoming Post-Travel Depression: Make The Most of Coming Home

For many people, coming home can be harder than it was to leave. You've spent the last little while on the adventure of a lifetime, yet you come back to a place where it feels like time has stood still and you can't help but shake that post-travel depression feeling. I know that for me, that space between actively traveling feels a lot like a state of limbo, where I'm just not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing in this place that is supposed to feel like home but doesn't really. Post-travel depression is a reality for many travelers, but you don't have[...]

Alberta, Travel

I Love Home But I Love Travel More

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land,” – G.K. Chesterton About five weeks ago I was on a small, cramped tourist bus in Vietnam, the beginning of a Mekong River tour. In the back row, five people were sitting and talking about their travels. For all of them, it was their first big trip away from home. Their home was the USA and they couldn't stop talking about how nervous they were to go back there. For an hour I listened to them talk about the reasons why they were[...]