Back To Real Life? Some Have Other Ideas

Wheels touch down; you’re back home, refreshed.

Train glides in; you step to the platform.

Car pulls in ; you unload from the road trip.

Back to real life?

Bite your tongue.

If you’re in the tribe, the next trip is already percolating.

Airline sites perused, Airbnb's evaluated, train and ferry timetables consulted.

Paper maps — yes, paper! — unfurl with crinkly magnificence.

Fodor’s and Frommer’s taunt you. Rick Steves waves from the bookshelf.

Rough Guides and Insight Guides compete with NatGeo Travelers and Eyewitness Travelers for dominance.

Dogeared copies of Travel & Leisure and Lonely Planet mags pulsate with possibilities once catalogued — bucket list journeys calculated.

Google Earth whirls, blog posts unfurl.

Your travel journal will no longer acquiesce to collecting dust.

Trolls and haters claim you’re irresponsible.

Running from something.

Selfish in your priorities.

Searching.

Unless you’re in the tribe, there’s no understanding,

Not all who search are lost.

Come join us.

Thanks for reading words written by a human for humans. This piece was originally published on Medium.com.