Comments on: Is Full-Time Travel an Act of Withdrawal? http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/ Adventures of a Girl with No Fixed Address Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: theprofessionalhobo http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-2/#comment-128125 theprofessionalhobo Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:31:34 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-128125 @Geoff - Thanks for stopping by! I think travel can take on my different forms (as is evidenced by the oh-so-varied daily grinds described by writers of my week-in-the-life series), and what we choose to experience and learn from out travels also varies. But in just about all cases - as with most life experience - wisdom comes. @Geoff – Thanks for stopping by! I think travel can take on my different forms (as is evidenced by the oh-so-varied daily grinds described by writers of my week-in-the-life series), and what we choose to experience and learn from out travels also varies. But in just about all cases – as with most life experience – wisdom comes.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-2/#comment-127511 Geoff Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:55:33 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-127511 Nora, Saw an article about you in Raleigh News & Observer today. I am a frequent global business and vacation traveler, for the last 30 years. Just to add, i have learned, we are all a recipe of human, cultural and cognitive insights and capabilities. How can one improve their cultural and cognitive understanding without travel? It would not be easy! Remember Marcel Proust's quote: "wisdom is gained on a journey no one can take for us or spare us" Happy Trails! Nora,
Saw an article about you in Raleigh News & Observer today. I am a frequent global business and vacation traveler, for the last 30 years. Just to add, i have learned, we are all a recipe of human, cultural and cognitive insights and capabilities. How can one improve their cultural and cognitive understanding without travel? It would not be easy! Remember Marcel Proust’s quote: “wisdom is gained on a journey no one can take for us or spare us” Happy Trails!

]]> By: Inspiration for living your dreams | BreatheDreamGo | India travel yoga http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-81906 Inspiration for living your dreams | BreatheDreamGo | India travel yoga Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:53:18 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-81906 [...] of my family and friends have always supported my full-time travels, some people suggested that full-time travel is an act of withdrawal, and others haven’t known how to support me (and my career as a writer) while living abroad. When [...] [...] of my family and friends have always supported my full-time travels, some people suggested that full-time travel is an act of withdrawal, and others haven’t known how to support me (and my career as a writer) while living abroad. When [...]

]]> By: Richard DuLac http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-61218 Richard DuLac Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:02:18 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-61218 Hi!, - it has been exciting more than exhausting!. I am still in the paperwork/legal shuffle of getting rid of my "stick house" which I probably will never buy another home again. It taught me that I am not a stick home, white picket fence guy!. I love traveling and now that Im 46 years old and have done the married and divorce thing, miltary career, Chicago/NY/NJ corporate life I learned a important lesson. Do what makes you happy! you contribute more to the world that way!. I have had to postpone my trip for the month due to the weather and sellling off of all my stick house stuff.. but I am making progress and cant wait to hit the road. comment ya soon!.. Rick Hi!, – it has been exciting more than exhausting!. I am still in the paperwork/legal shuffle of getting rid of my “stick house” which I probably will never buy another home again.
It taught me that I am not a stick home, white picket fence guy!. I love traveling and now that Im 46 years old and have done the married and divorce thing, miltary career, Chicago/NY/NJ corporate life I learned a important lesson.
Do what makes you happy! you contribute more to the world that way!.
I have had to postpone my trip for the month due to the weather and sellling off of all my stick house stuff.. but I am making progress and cant wait to hit the road. comment ya soon!..
Rick

]]> By: theprofessionalhobo http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-45090 theprofessionalhobo Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:41:11 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-45090 @Richard - What a great trip you have planned! Bravo! Are you exhausted from the process of selling everything, or energized by what's to come? What an adventure. Drop me a line if you want to submit a week-in-the-life entry to this site once you're on the road! @Richard – What a great trip you have planned! Bravo! Are you exhausted from the process of selling everything, or energized by what’s to come?
What an adventure. Drop me a line if you want to submit a week-in-the-life entry to this site once you’re on the road!

]]> By: Richard DuLac http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-45002 Richard DuLac Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:51:57 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-45002 Great post!, You do have a knack with the audience!..:) I think I mentioned on another post, that I retired 5 years ago January after 24years in the US Army. I was an Infantryman so I traveled alot!. I have been on every continent of the world, and the last 5 years of working the "Corporate" Life also left me unfulfilled. I resigned my position with the Company I was working with last month, started packing out the house, and bought a 13ft fiberglass trailer to haul behind my Jeep and am going to travel thruout North America from Canada to South America and the entire U.S. Everyone in there worlds here think Im crazy, but if you are a natural outdoorsman and traveling as you say, living in the world of the locals is really exploring! that is adventure! engagement! you are dead on! . I cant wait to hit the road at the end of December! and get back to what makes a real engaged world traveler happy! and that is...... Traveling! experiencing the world around us! Great post!, You do have a knack with the audience!..:) I think I mentioned on another post, that I retired 5 years ago January after 24years in the US Army. I was an Infantryman so I traveled alot!. I have been on every continent of the world, and the last 5 years of working the “Corporate” Life also left me unfulfilled.

I resigned my position with the Company I was working with last month, started packing out the house, and bought a 13ft fiberglass trailer to haul behind my Jeep and am going to travel thruout North America from Canada to South America and the entire U.S.

Everyone in there worlds here think Im crazy, but if you are a natural outdoorsman and traveling as you say, living in the world of the locals is really exploring! that is adventure! engagement! you are dead on! .
I cant wait to hit the road at the end of December! and get back to what makes a real engaged world traveler happy! and that is…… Traveling! experiencing the world around us!

]]> By: An Interview with the Most Professional Hobo: Nora Dunn | Matt-Gibson.org http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-39157 An Interview with the Most Professional Hobo: Nora Dunn | Matt-Gibson.org Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:31:59 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-39157 [...] I’ve had a couple of popular posts, including “Is Full-Time Travel an Act of Withdrawal”, and “What to Pack for Full-Time [...] [...] I’ve had a couple of popular posts, including “Is Full-Time Travel an Act of Withdrawal”, and “What to Pack for Full-Time [...]

]]> By: NYC http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-21320 NYC Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:48:53 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-21320 Quite interesting.. Here are pictures and notes of the last places visited http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=9 http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=10 http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=11 http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=12 Quite interesting.. Here are pictures and notes of the last places visited
http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=9
http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=10
http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=11
http://www.byguide.com/travel-story.asp?s=12

]]> By: theprofessionalhobo http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-21317 theprofessionalhobo Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:34:00 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-21317 @NYC - Good stuff! You must be having some amazing adventures on the high seas! Please send me an email (through the "contact me" page) if you'd like to participate in my week-in-the-life series: I'm sure lots of people would like to know what a week-in-the-life of sailing is like! @NYC – Good stuff! You must be having some amazing adventures on the high seas! Please send me an email (through the “contact me” page) if you’d like to participate in my week-in-the-life series: I’m sure lots of people would like to know what a week-in-the-life of sailing is like!

]]> By: NYC http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/09/is-full-time-travel-an-act-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-21311 NYC Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:08:02 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=889#comment-21311 Great way to proceed, if you manage to do so! I am spending more time then usual on a vacation, part of it on a sailing boat. Now I am still sailing in the Mediterranean and I don't know where or when the trip will end, the only thing I am sure about I like to continue. I know I will have to find another job soon and all this will have an end but I will repeat this experience again as soon as I can and it will possibly be complete different places and ways of traveling. Traveling for a long time, say 2 moths or more, puts everything in a different perspective and allows things that would be impossible if you are on a tight time schedule. I relocated for work in Europe and central Asia in the past and I can compare this with long term vacation traveling whereby there is a possibility to establish a strong contact with the places and the people as you are not rushing from a place to another. Great way to proceed, if you manage to do so! I am spending more time then usual on a vacation, part of it on a sailing boat. Now I am still sailing in the Mediterranean and I don’t know where or when the trip will end, the only thing I am sure about I like to continue. I know I will have to find another job soon and all this will have an end but I will repeat this experience again as soon as I can and it will possibly be complete different places and ways of traveling. Traveling for a long time, say 2 moths or more, puts everything in a different perspective and allows things that would be impossible if you are on a tight time schedule. I relocated for work in Europe and central Asia in the past and I can compare this with long term vacation traveling whereby there is a possibility to establish a strong contact with the places and the people as you are not rushing from a place to another.

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