Life is short. Yet, we don’t always treat it as such. We can find ourselves living life on autopilot, dealing with a lot of stress, and living with regrets – yet none of that needs to happen. We can choose to live our lives as we want to, looking to head out and explore when we want, follow career paths that light us up, and live our lives on our own terms. And for many of us, travel gets to be a huge part of that.
When you love to travel, it can be one of the most treasured parts of your life. After all, they say that travel is one of the only things you spend money on that can make you richer. It really can enrich your life in so many ways and really improve your quality of life overall. But it can also be hard to find the time to dedicate to it. Maybe you are making excuses for yourself or you know that you need to make some adjustments to allow more time. Either way, it helps to know exactly how travel can benefit you.
So in this blog post, we’re going to explore fifteen ways that you can enrich your life with more travel. Whether you want to radically change your life or not to make more time of it, these ideas should inspire you to get started. Let’s take a look.
1. Book a Round the World Trip
Firstly, of course, we have to begin with the idea of taking an around the world trip! If you really want to enrich your life with more travel, you could look to plan a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of traveling the world in one go. Of course, this is going to take a lot of planning and you may need to save up in advance for it (as well as have the time to do it), but it will always be worth it.
2. Plan a Staycation
With that one thrown out there, we’re now going to consider some smaller ways to add more travel into your life – ways in which might seem more feasible on an everyday basis. The first of which is planning a staycation! Here, you could look to book a trip to a nearby town to explore and enjoy an overnight stay at the same time.
3. Do a Day Trip
Likewise, you can also look to utilize day trips too. Day trips are great ways to explore local towns, villages, and cities that are near to you – without having to commit to overnight costs. This is a great way to attend events or see popular attractions for the day.
4. Use All Vacation Time for Travels
When it comes to being able to add more overseas travel or longer trips into your life, you’re going to want to make sure that you’re using up your vacation time at work well! It’s easy to let days slip by or waste them to just hang about the house. But if you want to travel more, you need to ensure that you are booking trips with the time you have available.
5. Take a Sabatical
If you find that you don’t exactly have all of the vacation time that you’d like in order to travel more, you could also consider asking for a sabbatical. This might allow you to take some extended leave from work for a set period of time, in which you could use to travel. That way, you know your job is there to come back to, but you still get to enjoy more time to travel.
6. Travel for Work
However, you don’t always have to think about taking time off of work to travel. You could also consider bringing more travel into your career permanently here. This is a great way for you to travel more and have it blend with your current lifestyle quite easily. Here, it might mean that you need to change careers or move companies in order to have a job that allows you to travel more. It could be working for a multinational corporation or being in international sales, either way, it could mean that you get to travel more often with your career.
7. Get a Job in Travel
Of course, there is also the option for you to work in the travel industry too. It’s not just corporate and executive jobs that will allow you to travel more, working in the field can often open up opportunities for you here. From being a flight attendant to a tour guide to a travel journalist, there are plenty of options for you to consider that might suit the kind of career and lifestyle you’re looking for.
8. Work Abroad
Then, you could also consider working abroad too! It might be the case that you want to get a temporary work visa in a set location for a few months or years, or even that you’d look to live there permanently. Either way, getting a job – even something in the field you’re already in – is a great way for you to add more travel to your life.
9. Interrail Around Europe
Something that might really appeal to you, if you’d love to be able to travel the length and breadth of Europe in particular, is interrailing. This is where you’d take trains all around Europe to get to all the places you want to go. And while that can seem like a lot of train travel in between, you also have the option of taking a good book, playing spider solitaire, or even brushing up on conversational languages with an app as you do it. There are plenty of ways to keep you entertained as you move between locations. The same goes for other forms of travel too!
10. Go on a Cruise
Another form of slightly longer term travel is a cruise! Of course, you can do this as a vacation and go for a week or two, but you can also do a round the world cruise that takes 9 months, or find any kind of trip in between those times that suits your needs. It can be a great way to enjoy entertainment and see the world.
11. Backpack Around the World
Another simple option here is to backpack around the world. This is something that many keen travelers and students fresh out of college love to do – but anyone can decide to do it and just go. The idea is to only take a few belongings (in a backpack!) and see where the wind takes you! You can also look to do odd jobs on your travels to help you fund your trips too, if need be.
12. Start a Travel Blog
Alongside the idea of working in the travel sector, you could also think about getting started with your own thing too. This is where starting a travel blog that generates an income comes in. This can be something that you begin with as a passion, that then turns into something more than that! It’s all about being able to make something great out of a thing you love to do!
13. Build a Travel Business
As a step on from that, you might want to think about creating a travel-centric business. This can be great if you already work in the travel field and you want to go out on your own. Maybe you can create your own tour operator, travel guide company, or offer a freelance service specifically for travel brands.
14. Utilize More of Your Time for Travel
Ultimately, one of the best things you can do here is look to utilize more of your time for travel. You can make it work if you’re smart with the time you have – such as weekends away to nearby locations, or working with any shift patterns you have to cram in extra time spent exploring!
15. Create a Travel Bucket List and Get Started!
Finally, you’re then going to want to think about creating a travel bucket list and begin to work your way through it. It’s one thing to know that you want to travel more – but another thing entirely to know exactly where you want to go. So to get you excited about what’s to come, start a list of everywhere you want to go and decide where you’re going to start. Then all that’s left for you to do is to book that first trip!
Final Thoughts: A Life Well Lived – Particularly When Traveling!
Choosing to make travel more of a priority in your life is always going to be a benefit to you. There are many ways that you can enrich your life with travel – fifteen of which are outlined above. But, ultimately, it’s up to you to make it happen! If you know that you want to travel more, dedicating your time to allow for it to take place is only the beginning. From there, you need to take action and bring it all to life. So good luck and enjoy it – you’ll wonder why you hadn’t done it sooner!
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