Low self esteem, feelings of worthlessness, and lack of purpose

[Brian37]

If you like traveling that is therapy too. Might seem boring to many, I love going to hotels. I hate driving and flying, but once I get there, I love the fresh smell and the different looks and the cute refrigerator and the tiny coffee maker and sometimes the huge shower too. But just seeing new things is fun too. 

I absolutely love traveling! To be honest I actually enjoy the journey more than the destination. It's just surreal anywhere I choose to go the scenery just melts my heart. You know the kind of heart skipping a beat, feeling funny in the tummy you're supposed to get when you're with someone you like? I feel those things when I go to a new place and I see a scenery that lifts my soul up from my body and freezes it and puts it back. I go to heaven there for a second!

Not me. I would have agreed in my teens and early 20s.  But in my old age there is truth to the adage "I need a vacation after my vacation." The destination does not wear me out, getting there does. 

Japan for me was a perfect example. I cant sleep on a plane. My wife and I at the time spent 7 hours driving from Central VA to Baltimore MD. We stayed at a hotel and caught the flight the next morning. The layover and transfer flight was in Chicago. It was initially a 1 hour layover, but got delayed because of a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean. So that alone we are talking about having to arrive 2 hours before the flight plus driving up there plus the delay, I was tired by the time we got to Chicago. Another 19 hours and I cant sleep on a plane. But, once we got to Tokyo it was still another 4 hours south by bullet train before we got to her house. I slept a good 14 hours if not more when we got there. I had fun while I was there  but the same lag I had after  we got back. I crashed when we got home too.

I like seeing new places I just wish the transporter were real to avoid travel lag.