Traveling Abroad

[kybearfuzz]

Sorry for the multiple posting, but I thought I would explain a thing or two while I had the internet available here. Someone once stated to me that I don't sound happy to be doing such interesting traveling in other countries.

I admit, traveling abroad, especially on Uncle Sam's dime, sounds like fun, and it is. However, there are some downsides to it. While everything is paid for, I am gone for three weeks, which is a long time to be gone from home. The fact that I travel alone makes it that much longer. Imagine being dropped into a foreign country where English isn't the primary language (such as Italy) by yourself. It's both scary and thrilling. An odd mix of feelings there.

Traveling solo is the real problem. Having someone to talk to, have dinner with, go places with. It makes a real difference when you're gone so long. Doing things by yourself gets very old very fast. I guess I crave company. Meeting some of the LJ crew and Bear411 buddies on this trip has made a world of difference. I guess I've enjoyed it more than my last.

It's all the same, but I am looking forward to Rome.. and I'm looking forward to getting home. Anyway, that's it... now back to your regularly scheduled program.... :P

Comments

[susobear.livejournal.com]

Uhm... I guess that on this one we work in a very different manner... I'm always looking for visiting cvoutries that I can't make myself undestood easily, like when I went to croatia... It makes me help to realize that world doesn't finish where I expect it to, and that really our planet is a big big big (really big) cradle of cultures that I have no clue about. That feeling of 'I don't knwo where I am, and I'm totally lost' is the perfect one for me. And it makes my experience to be much enjoyable as I have to work actually in order to communicate myself.