Traveling!

I am by no means a travel expert, but I do LOVE traveling. Many of the following I found on other travel blogs and since I can relate to most of them, thought I'd share. My next trip is only twelve days away! So, I'm getting excited.... and you who have the travel bug know what that's like..... 

Cheers to the Vagabond life!

You know you're a traveler (or missionary) when......

your boss doesn't ask why you want time off, they just ask "where are you going this time?"

you have a collection of SIM cards from around the world and you keep hold of them, just in case....

you can say "thank you" in ten or more different languages

you don't need a scale to measure your luggage

you can do currency exchanges in your head and it doesn't hurt

you refer to cities by their airport code instead of their name

you have a credit card that allows you to collect air miles

you always know exactly where you passport is and when it expires

someone asks where you got your outfit and you name countries instead of stores

you have to factor in time zones for every Skype call 

you wonder why people are always saying they want to travel, but never do

you often plan trips you never take

you suffer reverse-culture shock

home refers to more than one country 

you hardly ever get lost and when you do, you have no problem asking a local for help

your permanent address is still your parents' house, cause you're never in one place long enough

you commonly start sentences with, "my friend from _________ [insert country]"

all your friends ask for help in finding tickets or other travel advice

you get restless if you haven't traveled in too long

you hear strangers talk about traveling, you immediately eavesdrop

someone tells you they don't have a passport, you look at them like they have two heads

everyone counts on you in geography class or trivia time when required to name the capital of some random country

you to go McDonalds simply for the wifi

you watch a movie on DVD a week before it is released in theaters

fellow travelers ask you for directions in a city you don't live in

you have more friends overseas than at home

your bucket list is almost entirely travel-related

the majority of your paycheck goes into saving up for travelling

you aspire to write a travel memoir

you're not satisfied with the name of a country when you ask someone "Where are you from?" 

One travel blog I read today had a short comparison of travelers and tourists. I had to laugh at one paragraph, cause been there, done that.... 

"A tourist will go by the destinations to visit to such an extent that there will be nothing he will want to miss. Reached Agra on Friday? No matter what, the tourist will demand that he be shown the Taj Mahal without disturbing the rest of his itinerary. A traveller, on the other hand, will seek out people and other places to explore. The tourist will gush about Taj Mahal for a few days but a traveller will carry the stories of daily life from Agra and every other place he visits forever."