Coming Home

Returning Home

Traveling in whatever form you choose to undertake is a great experience.  You will embark on a journey that will change your life.  You will learn tons and have an adventure that will keep you talking for years.

There can be a downside to getting back to the what is familiar. Returning home can bring with it an additional flow of emotions.  In many ways one can be joyous and happy to reconnect with friends and family.  While it can also carry with it ideas of missing life on the road.  In my experience, it depends partly on the person, but additionally on the amount of time that the person was gone for.  Generally speaking, the longer that an individual is traveling the more difficult time they will have readjusting to a home life.  Not everyone experiences huge readjustment problems, but ones that do usually end up doing so because life at home can be quite different then life on the road.  Life at home is more monotonous because it is comfortable and common.  We are more routine, which is quite opposite of a typical backpacking trip.  You are usually challenged daily, have to make new decisions, and learn new things.  Truthfully, there are good and bad aspects to both.

Readjusting to home life is just as important as preparing for a trip in the first place.  My advice to anyone with itchy feet upon returning home is to try to keep yourself busy by attending events, having hobbies to do, work, school, or whatever keeps you entertained.  Also, do your best to mentally prepare for coming back before leaving.  Doing these things will certainly give aid lieu of readjustment.

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