Travel Culture Kids

I travel; a lot. It’s what I look forward to when I’m home, what I dream of when I sleep, and what I wish for when I am at work. Nowadays everyone I know wants to get away and hit the road, I call it TKC or travel kid culture. We live in the age where a return trip across europe might cost less than a hectic night out. An epoch in which everyone aged 18 to 23 wants to go ‘travelling’ through backpacker havens, such as Thailand and Australia; where foreigners mingle in hives of hedonism, forgetting the worries and stress of the ‘real world’ for an much realer world and the trivial stresses of being on the road. We pretend it’s dangerous; but it’s usually not. I am sure a lot less people are killed in Thailand each year than in the rougher parts of London. We think that we are toughing it, with oversized backpacks, hectic schedules, and constant changes of plan. Toughing it is the bouncer at my local pub, working two or three jobs to bring up his children in a healthy home. We think we are going on adventures, even though the road ahead has most likely already been blazed by countless travelers, as mind boggled as you at what they see.

We know all this, but I would lie to you if I said that I don’t get excited about travelling. So what keeps me going, what drives me to leave everything behind? That in itself is one reason; on the road you worry about tomorrow. Whether you have the resources, the energy, and the time to make it to the next stop. When the going gets tough, you still get going, and that feels good.



Then there is the unknown. You could plan everyday of your life, and not a single day would follow your plan. You could plan a trip, looking at every inch you travel, knowing exactly what is around the corner, and you will still be surprised by how different what you believed is to what you perceive. You will surprise yourself, and a day in which you surprise yourself my friend, is a good day.

So go away, leave home for the most adventurous trip you are willing to expose yourself to. Live life like it’s your last day, learn from your travels as though they were unending, and Love every minute of it. This is life, the one single life you get, and being on the road is a catalyst in your realisation that the world we journey through can be described with no words, this is, as good as it gets.