Sure we all love traveling but is your passion verging on addiction?! Check out these tell-tale signs and see if you are, in fact, a travel addict!
I love to travel…. loads but I also like staying in one place.
Some people, however, take their passion to a whole new level.
If you really really love to travel all the time then this article is for you!
Check out these 21 tell-tale signs and see if you are, in fact, a travel addict!
1. Your travel bucket list is 4 pages long
2. Coming home is more like a vacation from traveling
3. On your home-ward flight, you’re already planning your next trip
4. Once home, you’re already booking your next trip
5. Staying in the same place for more than one week makes you fidgety
6. Films make you want to travel
7. Books make you want to travel
8. Music makes you want to travel
9. Every day brings a new destination idea
10. You work to fund your next trip
11. 9 to 5 makes you feel like you’re in prison
12. You don’t wait around for people but take off on your own
13. Thinking about all the places you haven’t been makes you feel anxious
14. When you’re not traveling you fantasize about traveling
15. You say you could stop traveling whenever you want
16. You’re happiest on the road
17. You’re constantly counting countries and continents
18. Booking flights gives you an amazing high
19. The high street in your hometown plunges you into despair
20. You’ve tried living a stationary life many times but you always fall off the wagon
21. Your parents have suggested you seek professional help
How did you score?? Any travel addicts out there? Let us know we want to meet you!
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I’ve known I was addicted to travel for some time. Some of my family love my passion – others cringe. I’m different than most other travel addicts in that I’ve almost always traveled WITH my family – it’s what we do full-time as a family – “vacation for a living!” Our livelihood is solely from organizing our regional, domestic U.S. travel journals into best-selling KIDS LOVE TRAVEL guides.
Oh, oh! Danger alert! Many of those fitted, even if there’s still some hope since not all of them fitted in on me…. *giggles*
Am I a travel addict? I’m on a 4-month trek right now thru Mexico, Central & South America, then I go back to the States for 2 months before heading out for another 5-6 months in Asia, SE Asia, & Indo. Methinks I am more than an addict.
Yep, I think I’m a travel addict!
only 4 pages??
great list!!
Yep. I’m full on, too.
Guilty as charged!
So true, so true!
I am one of them!
yes i am.
clearly!!!
No. 3&4. yes.
I kinda like staying put in one place a little bit, too, but this list sounds an awful lot like me!
I could definitely stop travelling if I wanted to. No really, I could…
…I just hope I won’t have to.
Hi, my name is Danielle, and I’m a travel addict. This list definitely sums me up. It wasn’t until recently that I realized I’ve been a travel addict for most of my life. I was that kid who thoroughly enjoyed road trips from NY to FL, got a rush from taking off in a plane and loved the experience of flying alone as an “unaccompanied minor.” Now that I’ve identified and embraced my addiction, my life has been so much more fun. Counting down to my next adventure…78 days (may have to plan a mini-adventure sometimes before then, lol)
What? Only planning ONE trip on my way home? That’s NOT enough.
Nobody has suggested professional help–except maybe travel agents.
But 6 and 7 made me start a blog, A Traveler’s Library, and I score 100% on all the rest!
Guilty as charged for sure!
What a fun list and I def score fully on most of these!
Guilty, although I am capable of staying in one place for up to year, as long as it is sufficiently exotic. I’m uncomfortable being too comfortable.
You forgot to include, “You’re home so rarely, your furniture looks foreign.” A few months ago, we got back from a trip and the hubby swore that he had never seen our set of drawers in his life.
Brilliant! I think we have some serious addicts here
Maybe we should form a group, Travel Addicts Anonymous!
11 out of 21! Does that make me an addict?
@Jen, it makes you well on your way!
Addicted to traveling to Italy!!!
10 out of 21…hmm I’d say I’m well on my way to addiction!
Let’s just say that even if there was a 12-step meeting to cope with a travel addiction, I WOULD NOT GO. Does that answer your question? ;op
Bon voyage, everybody!
17 out of 21…i’m a goner.
Well, maybe, could be, alright, yes I am a Travel Addict too!
I’m at 20 out of 21. Awesome … Love it!
Wow! Even though I only scored maybe half of them, I already feel like a travel addict. Why? This post and those comments made me want to travel NOW!
If I’m going to be addicted to something, it might as well be travel!
I’m on the cusp. Great post.
Great post, how about you know you’re addicted to travel when you have to carry all your travel points cards in a separate card case.
Guilty!
I am lucky that both my hubby and I fit the bill! We definitely get jittery if we are not planning a trip or are on a trip somewhere. Four years ago we made ourselves a promise that we would get one passport stamp per year for the next five years. We are currently up to 14.
Guilty as charged – and that’s a good thing, possibly.
Home?! A REAL travel addict dosen’t HAVE a home.
I realised I was a travel addict when I was away about 4 holidays ago (only 3 months ago though!) and got a text from a friend. It read ‘hey miss jetset. What you up to? Want to come mountain biking this arvo?’ My reply was ‘sorry, flew out of town this morning, see you next week!’. That sums it up I think. Rarotonga last month, Canada next week. YAY!!!
I’ve been on the road for 10 years…that might qualify as addicted
I’ll throw it right next to good coffee and strong beer.
Comforting to hear others are likewise blessed with the travel bug. How do we develop this passion for new places and experiences into an epidemic to keep us travel consultants in business? “Where I’ve Been” and “1000 Places To see Before You Die” are my best friends- always trying to pin or mark off more places I’ve been to or am going to…..
Yes a support group, in the form of an at sea therapy session would be ideal. Heck, I’ll even volunteer to arrange it. Just let me know where and when…