What it means to be
“Bitten by the Travel Bug”

  What it means to be Bitten by the Travel Bug

Bitten by the Infamous Travel Bug… Has it bitten you yet? If it has, you know it’s life changing. After caving in after so many years of holding back, I’d finally given in and packed it up to go travel the world. What was this insatiable desire to travel? Am I crazy? And why is it that the more places I go, the more new places I add to the list?!? Will it ever end?

My friends, if the travel bug hasn’t bitten you yet, be prepared as it may just bite you in the very near future. Should you get infected and join the rest of us, don’t worry, it’s not all that bad. In fact, once you are bitten, you quickly realize that life has more purpose and rewards you with a passion and desire like no other. You find yourself no longer settling for just two or three weeks of vacation here or there. Oh no… Travel very seriously becomes a part of your life, something that is planned and well accounted for in advance. You decide to shape your life around it. Your work, your career, your travel goals… they all need to be aligned together and in balance. Essentially travel becomes your passion and is what keeps you going. The never ending desire to travel into the unknown, to discover and to explore. To meet new people, experience new cultures, stand in front of majestic landscapes and experience new foods around the world.

In all honesty, it can consume you! But in a good way of course (it all depends on who you ask:) For me, it happened early. With a short 2 month stint backpacking Europe nearly 15 years ago, I was hooked. In the years that followed, I continued on a small trips here and there and but then became more infected and took the only remedy I could come up with by taking a trip around the world and I have forever been changed. Whether good or bad, I desire to travel more and more now and revolve my life and work around travel and surprisingly I live without regret for this unwavering travel bug that lives inside.

Luckily, it’s not a lonely path. Turns out, there many others like me! Those adventurous souls that yearn to discover and experience the world we live in. The ones that keep an ever changing list of places they want to travel to every year and those that want to get the most of the short life we have here on earth. They become your comrades, the people you meet and travel with when on the road and those that you associate best with. Life back home just is never the same again. For a great place to feed your travel bug, check out BucketList.org for new travel ideas and to view others travel dreams…

Have you been bitten by the travel bug? Are you one of us? Care to join us? Share your story….