Comments on: How To Understand (And Beat) Your Homecoming Hangover http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/ Online travel magazine dedicated to exploring travel in the 21st century. Offering travel news, compelling interviews, online travel tools, and more. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:14:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-94337 Dave Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:10:59 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-94337 Hmm...I'm struggling with this now, but I agree with Matt's perspective and suggestions. I think the best way for me to get over the fact that 20 months of RTW travel is over is to apply what I've learned toward a change in career. Hopefully I'll find a job with a liberal vacation policy! Hmm…I’m struggling with this now, but I agree with Matt’s perspective and suggestions. I think the best way for me to get over the fact that 20 months of RTW travel is over is to apply what I’ve learned toward a change in career. Hopefully I’ll find a job with a liberal vacation policy!

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]]> By: Craig Hodges http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-80593 Craig Hodges Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:57:31 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-80593 Fair article. I like to read some of the deeper issues at play for both individuals and society at large. You hit on a few of them. Fair article. I like to read some of the deeper issues at play for both individuals and society at large. You hit on a few of them.

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]]> By: karthik http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-70250 karthik Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:18:11 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-70250 Nice article! Well, we all go through this, Back to home blues as I would call it. I try arriving back on a Friday or a Saturday, so that I have a day or two before I get back to the Grind. Nice article! Well, we all go through this, Back to home blues as I would call it. I try arriving back on a Friday or a Saturday, so that I have a day or two before I get back to the Grind.

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]]> By: N. Chrystine Olson http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-68066 N. Chrystine Olson Tue, 20 May 2008 15:20:59 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-68066 Excellent artcile and comments. Seems the longer you are away the larger the hangover (rather fits with the drinking analogy).My trick is to have something completely different on the homefront in the works. After 3 months in Australia it was a new job, after 5 months sailing the Sea of Cortez , the need to care for a sick parent (not in the plans...but boy, do 4 hour chemo sessions get you out of your own selfish longings for those awsome street vendor tacos in La Paz)...this last time, a move to the beautiful place I now call home. But even with those mechanisms, I find a time released hangover creep in every so often. Hits when I'm writing about the adventures, missing the buzz of a holiday romance, or just realizing that most of the folks around me don't have a passport and don't really want one. Guess using the Tao in day to day workings of life in the States is the best way to handle those mental wanderings. And of course there is the trip at Christmas in the Florida Keys on the calendar, tracing Hemingway's haunts and looking for 6 toed cats. ;) Excellent artcile and comments. Seems the longer you are away the larger the hangover (rather fits with the drinking analogy).My trick is to have something completely different on the homefront in the works. After 3 months in Australia it was a new job, after 5 months sailing the Sea of Cortez , the need to care for a sick parent (not in the plans…but boy, do 4 hour chemo sessions get you out of your own selfish longings for those awsome street vendor tacos in La Paz)…this last time, a move to the beautiful place I now call home. But even with those mechanisms, I find a time released hangover creep in every so often. Hits when I’m writing about the adventures, missing the buzz of a holiday romance, or just realizing that most of the folks around me don’t have a passport and don’t really want one. Guess using the Tao in day to day workings of life in the States is the best way to handle those mental wanderings.

And of course there is the trip at Christmas in the Florida Keys on the calendar, tracing Hemingway’s haunts and looking for 6 toed cats. ;)

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]]> By: Nomadic Matt http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-67924 Nomadic Matt Mon, 19 May 2008 17:45:43 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-67924 I hear you. I wrote about this when I came home on my blog (click on my name to be link over) and being home has been tough. I feel as though I haven't moved forward at all while home. That I'm right back the day before my trip and nothing has changed. But it has. I have. I think that you give some good advice, especially about realizing home is home and you need to get back into the grind to minimize the travel hangover. in fact, i was excited to be home at first. I was busy catching up with everyone but when that died down, I realized I had moved on. I think the hardest part is coming home and realizing that you are not home. I got burnt out by 18 months on the road and was eagerly awaiting to board that flight to Boston but after a few weeks, I realized it wasn't home but a place that held my friends and family. Home was else. But I digress. I think the thing to do to beat the hangover is really take what you've learned away and apply it to new things. If you fall back into the same old routine (and I have a bit), you waste all those experiences and all that wisdom you gained. I hear you. I wrote about this when I came home on my blog (click on my name to be link over) and being home has been tough. I feel as though I haven’t moved forward at all while home. That I’m right back the day before my trip and nothing has changed. But it has. I have. I think that you give some good advice, especially about realizing home is home and you need to get back into the grind to minimize the travel hangover. in fact, i was excited to be home at first. I was busy catching up with everyone but when that died down, I realized I had moved on.

I think the hardest part is coming home and realizing that you are not home. I got burnt out by 18 months on the road and was eagerly awaiting to board that flight to Boston but after a few weeks, I realized it wasn’t home but a place that held my friends and family. Home was else.

But I digress. I think the thing to do to beat the hangover is really take what you’ve learned away and apply it to new things. If you fall back into the same old routine (and I have a bit), you waste all those experiences and all that wisdom you gained.

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]]> By: Justin Landrum http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/05/19/how-to-understand-and-beat-your-homecoming-hangover/comment-page-1/#comment-67922 Justin Landrum Mon, 19 May 2008 17:19:28 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=563#comment-67922 Excellent tips, Ashley. I just returned from six months of traveling around SE Asia and can certainly utilize some of these ideas! "Routine is sometimes boring and annoying. But it’s an unchanging facet of life, and we have to force ourselves to remember that it’s these day-to-day mundane activities that make travel so invigorating and exciting." Absolutely - Travel injects a change into your day to day life. After several months abroad, as soon as travel becomes your life, the high-level novelty, the newness, of travel is lost. It can still be totally sweet, it's just not as fresh as it feels at the beginning of a trip. Time to go ward off the travel withdrawal! Excellent tips, Ashley. I just returned from six months of traveling around SE Asia and can certainly utilize some of these ideas!

“Routine is sometimes boring and annoying. But it’s an unchanging facet of life, and we have to force ourselves to remember that it’s these day-to-day mundane activities that make travel so invigorating and exciting.”

Absolutely – Travel injects a change into your day to day life. After several months abroad, as soon as travel becomes your life, the high-level novelty, the newness, of travel is lost. It can still be totally sweet, it’s just not as fresh as it feels at the beginning of a trip.

Time to go ward off the travel withdrawal!

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