Make no mistake about it. Travel gets into your veins, it flows through your bloodstream. Highly addictive. travel is like knowledge. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. And the more you find yourself not just wanting to travel. And just like a junkie, you find yourself “feening” to travel.
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You Know You Are a Travel Addict
Have you heard that there is a travel addict gene? While this post isn’t about science, it’s about the effects instead. Do you spend your nights dreaming of traveling somewhere near or far? If, like me, your answer is “duh”, you may have the travel gene too.
1. You know you are a travel addict
…when you have a hanbok, kimono, sari, 20 sarongs, lederhosen, and a grass skirt in your closet. You either that or you like role-playing. But hey, you’re glad that’s not the topic of this particular post… or are you?
2. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you instinctively know how to dial the United States from any country in the world.
3. You know you are addicted to travel
…because your 300 bottles of wine are ultimately sorted by country. Oh damn, I may have more addictions than I thought!
4. You know you are addicted to travel
if the first thing you do in the morning is to check airfare prices before you brush your teeth.
5. You know you are a travel addict
…because you have completely filled your passports before they expire. I’m on my fourth one, with only 6 pages left. Many countries require a full page for entry and exit stamps, so I’ll probably have to get another one in 2017.
6. You know you are addicted to travel
…when someone asks you how you are and you answer with what you did on your last trip or how excited you are about your next trip.
7. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you have bright yellow croc luggage. Clearly, you see me coming a mile away and I see it on the conveyer belt immediately. But, check first before you call out my name because my mother cajoled me to buy the same exact set for her.
8. You know you are addicted to travel
…when said bright yellow crocodile luggage was made by HGTV travel host Samantha Brown. Hey Sam, I have had so many compliments on this luggage, can we work something out?
9. You know you are addicted to travel
…because you have a stash of 15 different currencies in a jar in your house that you check before you leave for anywhere abroad. And more so when that stash becomes a coffee table art piece or shadow case.
10. You know you are addicted to travel
…sometimes you can rattle off recent currency exchange rates.
11. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you know translation such as how much and where’s the bathroom in 3-5 different languages.
12. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you know the high, low, rainy, and wet seasons of popular tourist destinations off the top of your head.
13. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you know gyro is pronounced hero, Laos is La-oh and there is no such thing as European Euros.
14. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you have multiple stashes of travel-size soaps, conditioners, shampoos, and lotions. What’s more, is you have so many you aren’t collecting anymore. Except for great products or pretty bottles.
15. You know you are addicted to travel
…when the first thing you do when you get off the plane because you need free WIFI or head to the nearest coffee shop.
16. You know you are addicted to travel
…when your refrigerator looks like this:
17. You know you are addicted to travel
when the majority of your phone apps are travel-related and some of them are in a foreign language.
18. You know you are addicted to travel
when you hear a song and you recall when and where you heard it the first time or it sparks special emotions associated with a special occasion. From this day forward I will always associate running the Paris Half Marathon with the Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” because that was playing when we took off.
19. You know you are addicted to travel
…when Googling jobs with the following keywords: location independent, digital nomads or work from home is a hobby.
20. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you easily recognize even the most remote 3-letter airport codes or look forward to a day in SIN.
21. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you know the difference between the Boeing 737 from and Airbus. Why do I know this? Because I spent the worse 6 hours of my life squeezed in between the window and my husband on Airbus A330 from Busan to Kuala Lumpur. I sat there in pure agony, not able to move or put the armrest up between us. I vowed then, never to fly one of those flying cans again.
22. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you get annoyed with newbies who forget the change in their pockets. Irritated they don’t bring their own ziplock bags. And good grief this isn’t rocket science people.
23. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you hardly get home from one trip before you start planning the next one.
24. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you see a plane overhead, sigh and you wonder where it’s going.
25. You know you are addicted to travel
…when you check your world clock app before you call someone. Hey, we’ve all made or received that 2 am call that wasn’t meant to be “a booty call”. lol And again like number 1, that’s entirely another blog post.
26. You know you are addicted to travel
Obviously, when you have a travel blog PERIOD.
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Comments
Such a good post! and your fridges was really look amazing. I want to travel too in different country
Thank you. It gets a lot of attention when people come over.
Wow I wish I was as addicted to travel as you! I’ve only traveled to places in the US!
There are a lot of beautiful places in America as well.
My husband and I crave for it. We plan our year around the places that we want to go to. I am definitely addicted to travel!
Me too. Funny thing is you can never see or do everything and the more you travel the more you realize that.
Haha fun post! I used to think im addicted to travelling, but now I think I’m working toward it ahha
Thanks for taking the time to visit.
Haha I guess I can’t say I’m addicted to travel, although I really want to go somewhere! I’ll take your 300 bottles of wine problem though. 😉 I only have two, and they are sorted into open and unopened lol.
Haha thats funny.
Wow you’ve got some awesome tells that show you’re a travel addict! Traveling is definitely something I want to do more of this year!
I think of nothing with more fondness and affection. I love being outside of my comfort zone.
6,14,20,21,23..tho! I can really relate!
Lauren
I hear ya, I bet you can add a few to the list too.
After reading this, I can solemnly confess that I am addicted to travel. Hilarious!
Welcome to the club. Its a nice group of people.
ahahah! Hello, my name is Umberta & I’m a travel addict… 😉
Welcome Umberta, I’m glad you’re here.
The refrigerator cracks me up. Seriously addicted to travel but that’s not a bad thing.
Its the first thing ppl gravitate to when they visit the first time.
I have not traveled enough to have a refrigerator that looks like that. Maybe one day because I am an addict in my own right.
of course no comparisons necessary
I love your fridge. It seriously is awesome!!! Gave me a good laugh.
ikr… just little over the top
I’ve traveled a lot but I haven’t experienced filling my passport pages before it even expires. These are all very accurate though!
Being born on an Army base makes you a traveler on day one so its pretty easy to fill up a passport. All the hoing back and forth, official and leisure travel adds up quickly.
Woow,Your Fridge did you travel to all those places ? you should have enough vacation , it i amazing thank you for the post 😀
You can never have enough vacation or fridge magnets, lol.
We can definitely relate to a lot of these points. I think we might be a bit addicted to travel. We like to collect fridge magnets from all the countries we go to but we don’t quite have as many as that picture there.
Yeah, I know its a little over the top. Trust me I know. lol
OOO i love this post!! i am addicted to travel since i was a child!! i definitely agree with what you say… Thanks for sharing with us 🙂
Thank you. It was fun writing it too
This is a hilarious post. But very true, I’m ashamed to say I’m guilty with most of this. Especially the souvenirs, currencies,etc and yeah even the mini toiletries.
IKR, its all good though. Addiction starts with acceptance, right?
You have 300 bottles of wine! Color me impressed and jealous!
And you’re on your 3rd passport. I am so jealous of your life right now. I want to travel more, but with the baby and everything else I can’t. 🙁
We collected most of it when we lived in Europe. Good wine is so inexpensive there and we used to buy it by the case. I wish you could do that in America.
With so many great places in the world, how can you not be a travel addict? Are you offering to use your site as a support group forum?
The more you travel you realize that very thing. And yes, I am stop in anytime you need some travel therapy.
This was hilarious! My fridge looks EXACTLY like that… I actually ran out of room. My husband put up a big sheet of metal on the wall in our kitchen so I could keep going!
I am actually thinking about doing that for my office because my fridge at home is stainless steel.
I think you are addicted to travel lol! Thanks for the fun and enlightening post! You really know what you’re doing!
Haha, the support group are my fellow travelers. Its a nice group of people.
I love traveling. I try to take least one big trip and several small trips each year. Now that my son is a year it is going to be great seeing him explore the world with us. I don’t collect magnets but I do shot glasses.
I grab shot glasses and mugs for a few friends fro time to time.
so relatable and funny. We get all sort fare and travel alerts from every travel sites possible.
Those are my favorite emails, those and loyalty program balances, hotel and flight confirmations. lol
Your fridge looks awesome! Traveling is fun. I don’t have the time for it now, but perhaps one day!
Yeah, I hear ya, but… you got make time for it Amber, just like anything else that’s priority.
Number one made me laugh. “Role playing.” Ha! Number five made me think you might be addicted to more than just travel – which is just fine by me, because I guess it takes one to know one, huh? Number nine? Fascinating! I’d love to look through that, just to see what’s there. I know, that probably seems creepy, but I swear there are no bad intentions! I’ve only ever seen American money and Canadian change – which all look the same! I loved the rest of your list too – especially that last item. Quite true, that one.
Haha you are so right, especially about number 5… I’m working on it, trust me.
I have so many travel-size soap and shampoo bottles that I’ve also had to start leaving them behind in hotels! It seems like such a shame but I just don’t have any more space in my bathroom
I still get the pretty bottles and luxury samples, I put them in gift bags from time to time.
OMG i thought i was the only one who collected magnets! never met anyone else that has done that! Envious of your collection!!
I have a lo lot of friends who do, that and shot glasses, coffee cups, postcards, bottle corks, beer bottle caps, and all kinds of things.
Haha I loved this post and OMG your fridge ?? anyway you could be addicted to worse!
So true, did you read number 5? lol
Your post and picture of the fridge made me laugh!:) At least traveling is harmless addiction, so don’t feel guilty:)
Haha, thanks. I don;t think that will ever change.
Great post – we know we are addicted to Travel – we have over 65 snow globes from around the world in the house!
Yup, that will do it.