{"id":5652,"date":"2014-01-30T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:24:02","slug":"paying-alone-time-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/paying-alone-time-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying for Alone Time on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">&nbsp;<\/span>I have arrived. By that I mean, I am here. Present. And Productive. Or at least, Pleased. But I&#8217;m Paying for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve exhausted \u201cP\u201d words to describe my current state of being, let me explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post was originally published in 2014. It has since been updated for accuracy of links and content. <\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have rented a place of my own, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/tale-pics-serendipity-gulfport-florida\/\">Gulfport Florida<\/a> for 10 days; something atypical of my travel lifestyle, which usually surrounds some form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/travel-tips-resources\/get-free-accommodation-around-world\/\">free accommodation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of this place being free, it&#8217;s expensive. Like, holiday rental rate expensive. It&#8217;s reasonable when you see what I&#8217;ve got \u2013 a stand-alone one-bedroom house with full kitchen, gym, and other unique features, in a very funky area \u2013 but it&#8217;s not exactly cheap on the full-time travel scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i><b>Sometimes, it&#8217;s worth paying for alone time on the road. <\/b><\/i><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dark Side of Hospitality Exchanges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year, I&#8217;ve bounced around from place to place, staying two days to two weeks with various hosts and close friends. And it has been lovely. I&#8217;ve stayed with hosts that provided cultural exchanges, catch-up time with girlfriends, and pow-wows with colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>But.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since arriving in the States a few weeks ago, I&#8217;ve been sick. This has been exacerbated by my hosts&#8217; pets to which I&#8217;ve had various allergic reactions. In one case, I was sharing a 400 sq ft apartment with a friend and two big dogs. If anybody could squeeze together in that space and not kill each other, it was us. But it was also too much, physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>When you stay with other people, you make sacrifices.<\/b> You must abide by their house rules. You keep to their hours. You lose personal time and privacy. And very few hosts understand a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/location-independent\/\">location independent<\/a> person&#8217;s requirement to \u201cplay\u201d on their computer for hours each day. (And no, it&#8217;s not play. It&#8217;s work. And it pays the bills too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re interested in the cultural\/friendly exchange, so you engage in more conversation and fun time together. This is nice, but it comes at a cost; either the cost of work, or personal space and alone time. (Or sleep). This is a no-brainer to cope with in the short-term; but long-term, it&#8217;s just not maintainable.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about House-Sitting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve long professed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/travel-tips-resources\/get-free-accommodation-around-world\/\">house-sitting<\/a> to be my favourite form of free accommodation, since it affords me my own time and space to work, while allowing me to sample local life around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stick to these words. But I also throw in the teensy caveat that you&#8217;re still living on somebody else&#8217;s turf and terms. And not all house-sitting jobs are so easy; I remember one gig in particular that took me and my mother (who joined me) <i>hours<\/i> each day to keep the house clean, the dogs walked and fed, and garden tended to. I have no idea how the home owners managed on a daily basis, with full-time jobs.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alone Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say I&#8217;ve given up on hospitality exchanges or house-sitting, or other forms of free accommodation. Rather, after<i> seven years <\/i>of full-time travel, and after having had the luxury of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/dont-send-me-presents-my-house-has-no-number-my-street-no-name\/\">my own place in Grenada<\/a> for a while, I realize I need to pay a little more attention to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost a little piece of myself in adapting to so many different scenarios and circumstances for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m getting old. Or tired. 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