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Poll: The post-trip blues
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We all get ‘em.
Once the weirdness of being back fades and we get back into our "regular" lives. Work, school, etc.
And you think about where you were and what you were doing 1, 2, 3 days, weeks, months ago. What your life was.
How can you NOT be depressed??

I’m curious to hear about some of other people’s ways of coping. How you deal, what you do.
What’s the best cure?
Any tried and true methods?
And what’s the "oddest", "silliest", or "worst" thing you’ve ever done??

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I spend my time writing the[url=‘http://outdoorholiday.blogspot.com/’ title=‘Travelog. Hiking trips in Europe, travelling in Eastern Europe’]description of my mountain trips[/url]. Or just watch the picture taken, for the digital pictures I try to do basic prelucration of them, remember the places and the people I’ve met.

As I don’t have to much free time, I mainly go hiking during the week-end. After a few days i can just start preparing another hiking tour.
for example, last week-end I’ve been into the Dolomites and still didn’t have time to go to a photo lab with my film and to finish the blog.

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[url=‘http://www.outdoorholiday.com/mountain.php’ title=‘Hiking Holidays in Eastern Europe’]Carpathian Mountains[/url]

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Hey there,

After a great trip, naturally I fall back into my routein of work-school-work, blah blah blah. How do I cope? Well, honestly, I start thinking about, and planning, another trip. I also do as others have done, and I look at photographs, read my journal, etc. I also try to keep in touch with people I have met, and we often reminiscence . Sometimes it is more depressing though, to look at reminders I mean. Because often (everyday) I am thinking: what the hell am I doing living here? Life if so much better in_________(fill in the blank). When I am home, I am so exceptionally busy that I start to forget those moments of pure bliss and inspiration that often I have felt whilst traveling. What I do is I start writing memoirs of specific moments and feelings of my travels, and then I get inspired again. I don’t really have much time to write anything much but I squeeze it in during a lunch break or while I am sitting in one of my boring graduate classes.

Good luck getting through your blues. Happy future travels.

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I start planning my next trip, that always helps.

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I’m so hungover and worn out and broke, I’m happy I can’t enjoy myself for a long time after!

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Try playing a couple games of soccer after a hungover. =(

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It’s been mentioned.

I basically look to the past and compile photos and trip reports and re-live the trip over and over again.

Then I start thinking about and planning the next one.

Still, I’ve never found an effective cure.

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I returned from South America a few weeks ago, and last week, I was so depressed I nearly walked out of my job and nearly boarded a plane leaving the country, with the idea of never coming back.

But then the weekend came around, I slept in and went on a nice walk, and felt sooo much better.

It gets better, people. It just takes a few weeks….

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I just got back from my summer eurotrip but planning the next one isn’t really making me feel any better, all I can think about is all the hours I had to work at a terrible job just to save enough cash to go on the trip… In the end I know it will always be worth it, but it’s hard to tell yourself that when you’re burried in school work and brousing the classifieds for another job… I miss Europe.

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Home Skillet mentioned he nearly did it, but I actually did do it, After my big OE Trip in Europe I came back to New Zealand, but was so restless, felt like there was so much more to do, that after a year back home, I quit my job and within a week was back on a plane back to London, and spend the next 7 years there, now that I have been back in NZ for 3 years, it is a little harder, with a morgage and 4 cats, so my favourite photos are my screensavers, so I just let them run its course, over and over again, also got some photo’s blown up and they are all over my walls

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I don’t really feel like that. I just returned from Europe about a month ago and when I first got back I missed it a little, but it was also nice to be home. I emmediatly began thinking about future trips, and I actually bought a new suitcase the day after I got back. Cause you just never know. I moved to a new province about a week after I got back and I never really had time to think about being back in Canada and being depressed. Now, i’ve got so much school work that I don’t have time to think of it now. I, like Jennifer & Chester, have all my pictures as screen savers and as by desktop background, so it’s nice to be reminded of all the places that I was not long ago. Already i’m looking at planning my next trip, although it won’t be to Europe. I’ve been there twice, so I want to get to another continent. So i’ll be off to Asia sometime in the future as soon as I have some money. It’s kindof hard to get back from a trip and start saving for another when you are in school and don’t have a job. Ohh well, i’ll get there eventually, but the sooner the better.

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Just reading this string of messages help b/c I know I am not alone with these post-trip blues.
The first few days back are so hard. It trips me out to be sitting at my desk here at work and thinking 24 hours ago I was walking down the street in Rome. Just 24 short hours ago!
I agree with the others—-I launch into planning the next big adventure, review photos. Also like to get on these message boards and read questions from other travelers—-having a forum to share experiences is helpful. And whenever I meet new people here at home—-i try to find out if they are fellow travel addicts and if so, talk travel with them! That inevitably leads to a lively conversation of great trips, adventures—and the often more entertaining, MIS-adventures. i will talk travel with anyone!
i try to make a point to keep in touch via email with people i met while traveling and reminiscing on the things we did always makes me smile.
also, i like to use these post-trip blues as motivation to work as much as possible to save $ as quick as possible to go back to europe as soon as possible! every time i think "do i want to work all day sunday" or "do i want to go hang with friends at the beach sunday??"—-when i feel torn, i remind myself how bummed i was to come back from europe so it helps to make that decision easier——do the extra work on sunday—-so i can make $ to get back to europe.

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I’ve got some you guys could read on my page: Http://www.xanga.com…
Please enjoy and feel free to leave any comments/sign my guestbook at will!

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Coming home from an amazing trip is always going to feel a bit depressing at first, especially when you have to get back into everyday activities, like work or study, and when you’re seeing your friends who don’t all understand what an incredible experience your trip was and how it might have made you feel different about things.

I know that I’ll feel down when I get home, so while I’m away I try to come up with a list of things to look forward to for when I get home – like a weekend away, a party, coming back to something I enjoy doing, like sport. And when I get home I put all my photos into albums and show anyone who wants to see, I look at them often and remind myself of what a great time I had, and I think about where I’d like to go next.

I also try to keep things in perspective – you can’t be on holiday all the time, and if you spend all your time wishing that you were, you don’t have time to enjoy your ‘real life’. Trying out new things at home can also be lots of fun. Remember that although being in London (or wherever) is travelling for some people, it’s home for others, and if the travellers can find things to enjoy then so can you!

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Hell, it’s been about 1.5 years since my last trip to Europe and I still reminice, but not as much as I used to. I always found planning the next trip to help very little only because I end up diverging and remembering my previous trips which doesn’t make things easier. As sad as this probably sounds, focusing on my job or my house is my only release.

-Dan

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