Did you know there’s an official wanderlust gene?
Crazy, right? While that’s super cool and all, most of us that suffer from wanderlust already know it and we don’t need to get our genes tested.
If you’re thinking you might suffer from wanderlust but don’t want to take a blood test to make it all official – read on and see if you have the symptoms.
Here are 7 ways to tell you might suffer from Wanderlust:
- You are more proud of the number and variety of stamps in your passport than by your official title, your college degree, or the type of car you drive. Titles don’t matter. Stuff doesn’t matter. Seeing and experiencing the world around you? That matters.
- When someone tells you they have no desire to leave the country, you instantly know you’ll never be friends. I mean, like, what would we even talk about?
- You have a really hard time understanding why your family member who has access to clean water, health insurance, a full-time job and a safe place to live has ANYthing left to complain about. Like seriously? Traveling teaches you to be humble and realize just how good we all have it.
- You’ve booked a flight for less than $50. Travel hacking aside, flights within Europe, Asia, South America, etc are DIRT cheap! You know when the flights go on sale, and you have all the “deals” sites memorized.
- You start most of your sentences with “When I was in….”
- When someone says they want to travel but can’t afford it, your heart clenches and you want to run through every idea you can think of. “Can you get a part-time job? Can you sell your clothes or your furniture? Can you couch-surf or do a home-stay? Can you teach English abroad, or get a working visa to bartend your way through Europe…..?”
- You get frustrated when people equate “vacation” with “travel.” Um, yeah, sure going on a cruise to the Bahamas sounds like a fun vacation but travel it is not.
Do you identify with any of these?
I know I do!
Do you have anything to add to this list? Anyone else out there suffer from Wanderlust?
This is such a good post, I can totally relate. I can just hear the words coming out my out when speaking to new people “When I was in…” haha I know Im doing it and I can’t stop!
I can tick off 5/7 , I think I would like to add: A travel Bucketlist that is longer than , well, any other existing list in the world!
This is a nice post, would love to go somewhere now. Wonderful thought for a post.
I was sitting here trying not to laugh out loud in public because I can really relate. Thanks for sharing!!
YES! I love it.
I just have to wonder if its “suffering” at all? haha…
haha, right?
I definitely suffer from the wanderlust gene haha. And I do often find myself starting sentences like “when I was in…” lol
This is me in a nutshell!
I most definitely suffer from this fabulous, wonderful condition!
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I’ve never booked a flight for under $50… hmm… Have to try that sometime.
When we were in SE Asia, we paid $9 to fly Singapore to Malaysia. I’ve also flown Ryanair flights in Europe for around $50 – to fly Germany to France. And we never paid more than $45 to fly within India.
Great post. I can totally relate to it. Many of my sentences start with “When I was in…”. The 50$ flights within Europe…well, I have not yet found one, but I keep searching 😉
Traveled to few places but not enough to call wanderlust, Although would like to get that bug someday
Haha I can’t relate to all but #5 is totoally me! Also, when someone says they can’t afford to travel, I try to find hacks everywhere I can before I allow them to give up! There are so many options to get anywhere 😉