A month ago I landed at Changi airport in Singapore, groggy from my 3rd flight of the day (backpackers budget, innit) but oh-so ready for the adventure ahead. Here’s what I’ve learnt in my first month of full time travel.
- You feel like you’ve been away forever
- And all the day to day worries and concerns you feel at home are now totally insignificant
- Suddenly you wonder why you ever needed so much STUFF
- And develop a deep rooted love/hate relationship with your backpack
- The spontaneous adventures are the most fun: days on the road in a camper, unsure where you’ll even sleep that night
- But sometimes you’d just really like to sit on your own sofa with a cuppa and an episode of Grey’s Anatomy
- No two days are the same and you quickly learn not to get attached
- But you scare yourself anyway with how much you’d quite like to move permanently (damn you, Australia)
- You realise that every penny really does count and become incredibly price sensitive
- Your brain is basically a human exchange rate calculator
- $1 frozen cokes from Maccas become your most consistent form of sustenance (guys, that’s like 56p)
- When road tripping in Australia, you start mentally befriending the other users on WikiCamps
- “Sue said the long-drop wasn’t even that smelly for a free camp!”
- You realise you probably never needed the bathroom cabinet full of 65 different face creams and cleansers
- Because the $2 replacement you picked up in the supermarket works just as well
- Everywhere you go, you’ll take half the beach back with you
- Permanent SBC (sandy bum crack)? Standard traveller life
- You fall in love with every new place and never ever, ever want to leave. Never.
- Until you rock up at the next destination…
- You forget what it feels like to ever truly feel clean
- But it’s okay because the ocean makes the best bath
- And when you do stay in a budget Airbnb with an actual bath tub, you may as well be at the Ritz
- You lose all concept of what day or date it is
- And time zones mean your friends are never awake when you are
- But most of all, you’re already worried about how you’ll ever be able to adjust back into normal life at home again
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Sounds like you’re having the best time. Really enjoying following your trip on Instagram x
Great read! I would of loved to have gone backpacking when I was younger… I mean, I still can but I have a mortgage and other adult responsibilities now!
Zoey | https://www.zoeyolivia.com
I’m so glad you are having such an amazing adventure! Although you are making me want to visit Australia stat and I miss you oodles and oodles 💕 Savour every moment I’m sure you’ve got so many adventures still to come!
You are living the dream right now! Love reading all about your adventures.
xoxo
Jess
The Crown Wings | UK Travel & Lifestyle Blog
Sounds like an amazing trip! Deffo making me want to go to Australia!
god this is making me so so jealous. You are literally living the dream, and it sounds like you are so so happy which is amazing. I’m hoping to go myself one day!
We were only in Oz a month and I mentally cried all the way home so dread to think how you will be on your way home. Soak up every bit of it? Travelling is the best thing in the world! Still trying to work out how I can do it for a living haha x
Chances are you’ll never adjust back to normal life again….you’ll just be saving up for the next time you can travel again 😂 there’s worse ways to live! xx
I think so!! X