34 Signs You Are Addicted to Traveling

This morning, my sister sent me an interesting article about travelers...  Loved it so much and found myself in many of its points that I decided to share it with you. 34 Signs You Are Addicted to Traveling, By Matthew Kepnes published on Thought Catalog The first time I took a trip alone was to Costa Rica when I was 23. I had never really traveled before that. My family had only done a few trips to Disney World and a cruise when I was younger. That trip changed my life. And ever since then I’ve become a travel addict. I got the travel bug. Once the travel bug infects you, there is no going back – you are a traveler for life. Everything you do will revolve around travel. I have the bug. I’m addicted.  

Here are some signs you might be a travel addict too:

• You start all your stories with “When I was in…”

• You only TIVO the travel channel.

• You read guidebooks for fun.

• You plan trips you will never take.

• You take toilet paper everywhere you go out of habit.

• You have more than one currency in your wallet.

• You keep a packed suitcase handy just in case.

• Your iPod only has songs related to traveling.

• You run a travel blog

• You speak in airport codes not city names.

• You can tell where people have been by the cheesy logos and sayings on their shirts. (Same Same = Thailand, Yellow Star = Vietnam)

• You don’t take sick days so you can use them for extra long vacations.

• You have elite flier status on multiple airlines.

• You attend travel conferences multiple times a year.

• You always ask people “where are you from?” instead of “How are you?”

• You don’t have paintings on the wall – you have maps.

• If you haven’t been anywhere in a few months, you get the shakes.

• You spend two hours each day reading travel blogs and websites.

• You subscribe to multiple travel magazines.

• When you think of prices, you value things in terms how many days in your next destination it costs. “That TV is ten days in Paris! Let’s get this one – it’s only five!”

• Some people voted for Barack Obama, you voted for Anthony Bourdain.

• When people ask you about your hobbies, all your answers contain the word “travel.”

• Some people cry when they leave home. You cry when you have to go back.

• When people ask you your profession, you say vagabond.

• You filled your passport in the first year you had it.

• Lonely Planet is your homepage.

• You are a travel hacker – not because you travel a lot but because it’s fun.

• You have trips planned for next decade.

• Your tramp stamp is a globe.

• You can identify planes just by looking at them.

• You can name the airline by looking an airplane’s tale.

• You can say “Cheers” in multiple languages.

• Your bookshelf only has travel novels.

• You write a post about being a travel addict.

  I do agree on almost all the points and can't stop smiling while reading them again and again.