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Anonymous02/11/26, 16:06No.2862445When to stop traveling
I'm unemployed for the first time with a lot of savings and I've been traveling for 2.5 months.
I feel like I've stopped enjoying it. I'm tired, things no longer exite me as much and I feel like the opportunity cost of travel (I want to start a business) is creeping up.
I can probably solve most of these problems by staying put somewhere but I'm thinking of just calling it quits and continuing again another time, but I have fomo as there is still so much to see and do.
What's the best approach here?
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Anon02/11/26, 16:27No.2862451
My solution is to climb a steep hill every day. Other guys hit the gym. Glutting yourself with relaxation and pleasurable leisure experiences will always manifest disillusionment, unless you're a diehard hedonist who is blessed with limitless dopamine production. The privilege of plentiful spending money soon gets taken for granted. A four-star hotel just feels like a place to sleep, it doesn't feel like luxury anymore.
>the opportunity cost of travel
Some guys aren't cut out to be a genteel bum, to loaf around in style living off savings. If that's you, you might as well get back into the grindset. Scratch your travel itch by watching YouTube vlogs and going on weekend excursions in your local area.
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Anon02/12/26, 13:15No.2862723
I'm the same as you. I have a decent amount of Bitcoin that makes me unconcerned about the future, stopped working a year ago but it's oddly difficult.
I feel like I have to keep inventing side quests for a sense of purpose - hitchhike across this country, motorbike across these. Every time a quest is complete, I feel lost and kinda unsettled until I find a new one.
The worst thing is, because I love so much, I can't build and maintain healthy habits, my cardio is shit, my doomscrolling is off the charts. There's is no sense of structure, no time to get up, nothing to get up for, no friends to meet.
I'm just gonna go get a ESL job in a comfy country. I just want to read again, work out and have a social life. Early retirement is a mirage, you think you want it but there's nothing there.
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Anon02/12/26, 15:04No.2862759
Traveling alone is your issue imo. Traveling around with your wife, before life gets too serious with kids and both having remote jobs makes it all the better. However 2 months is really a long time to continuously travel.
>currently on month two, visiting my wife’s family in china. (Don’t bother coming, only Shanghai is worth visiting. Every where else is a shit hole, filled with rude retarded mainlanders)
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Anon02/15/26, 16:39No.2863525
travelling for the quest.
if there is no quest you care about it is going through the motions.
when you are new to travelling - seeing a famous landmark was rewarding.
being in a famous country/country you were enamoured with was rewarding.
now youve done that, you aren't newly needing a break off work or needing to get out of your depressing home country - you area already doing that.sometimes there is too much redditification of the travel quest but people who like golf go to famous golf courses or ski hills. there are many hobbies that have locations or items that provide the purpose of the trip and they enjoy the sights along the way.
visiting friends and family or your heritage are the common ones obviously.
searching for some weird food like casu martzu or ortolan buntingif you have no quests but have time off, i think having a comfy productive time in your home region near friends and family is good. you can try to make a relationship since you have free time and arent broke
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Anon02/28/26, 20:54No.2867238
>the first world city is full of culture
lol
lmao even
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Anon03/11/26, 15:05No.2869558
It's important to power through the slump and keep seeing new places. Letting your motivation fade away is the worst decision you can make as a long-term traveler. Tomorrow I take the 8 AM bus to Durgadi to climb a remote mountain. Not because I really want to, but because it is necessary to keep exerting myself and not succumb to laziness as I enter my fourth month of wandering.
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Anon03/13/26, 05:42No.2869858
Does anyone else start to get really annoyed with having limited alone time while traveling?
I should probabaly get weekly rentals that have kitchens so I can cook and not have to rely on going out
Public transportation can also be annoying
I go thru phases of being really annoyed by people and prefer to hole up and have alone time and nature time. So its nice to be in a bicycle friendly town and cook my own food, but some places make it tuff
Any advice?