Comments on: If you Aren’t on the Move, Are you Still a Traveler?

By: Andy Graham of HoboTraveler.com

Andy Graham of HoboTraveler.com — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:27:44 +0000

Funny…

Things Blur because you are not living traveling, you are still living a vacation. When you can travel perpetually, then the reasons to travel fast disappear and you go slower. The comment about money is the correct problem.

Blur always means you are on vacation, not a traveler.

For the sake of argument, I must accept that nobody travels forever, although the majority of Travel Blogger portray this, it just is not true, 99.99 percent lie.

As a person who truly has traveled perpetually for over 11 years this is annoying, because everyone calls themselves a traveler when they go on vacation for over three months.

Travel for fun, if you decide to go Pro, here is a rule I made up because I as tired of listening to people discuss this.

Here is a real funny, I had an advertiser who wanted to be on a travel Blogs write, I said, be very careful when you find travel bloggers, they will all stop. She started laughing, she wanted to advertise for a long time, not for three months or one year or even two.

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:46:20 +0000

You are indeed still travellers. What you are doing is called slow travel. Great way to see the world too.

By: Bessie

Bessie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:39:16 +0000

Amen sister, and I came across your blog at the right time – my husband and I have been traveling a year through Latin America, and sadly, things blur. I still had some excitement about walking in the bazillionth-hostel, church, these past few weeks, but let’s face it, the excitement was mainly about looking forward to settling in for a while.

Ditto your thoughts that settling in a foreign country temporarily is still traveling because it’s all about your mindset.

Cheers & happy settling in from Buenos Aires!

By: theprofessionalhobo

theprofessionalhobo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:15:39 +0000

@Scott: I hear you. I’m still fighting against the concept that I might no longer be a hobo (for now), as I simply feel so very (very) far away from everything that I have known to be home. I continue to feel my continental roots drawing me towards Canada, even though I haven’t been home in a few years. But I can understand your perception as well.

@Keith: One of the reasons we chose to get our own place here in Victoria was because we weren’t getting enough time off to explore the area with our caretaking arrangement plus other obligations. Now that we have our own digs, we’ll be taking time to go to Philip Island, New Zealand, Bali, Queensland, and other places. Yay for exploratory travel!

By: Keith Gill

Keith Gill — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:33:51 +0000

You are a traveler or traveller if you continue to explore new places. I have been a full time traveler for nine years . Sometimes we settle in a place for a few months to a year but continue to explore the area around us in greater detail.
I am looking forward to reading of more places that you visit in Victoria.
This winter I am in the Adelaide Hills but exploring the entire region on my days off. Last winter we parked for 4 months at a Marina south of Belize City but still traveled the whole of Belize. I will do so again because that is what travelers do. Stop and really see things.
Tourists come in and out on a fixed itinerary and tend to see exactly what they came for. Travelers move in and see the places for what they really are.
Safe travels, Keith

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:10:57 +0000

I believe it’s very very difficult to be a non-stop traveller, even if you had the financial resources to do so. There will come a point where you find “the perfect place” and will want to stop for a bit. You will make friends. Living out a suitcase gets to you. Not being able to own anything that won’t fit in a suitcase gets to you.

So it’s not a knock to say you’ve found a place you’d like to spend a few years in. You’re just not a hobo or a full-time traveller. You’re taking a break from it. That’s ok. I think it’s human nature to put down roots.