How to travel if you have a full-time
Travels / / December 19, 2019
Working 40 hours a week, you can get enough money to travel for fun, but there is a big problem - time. After all, when you work in this mode, not easy to find a free moment for a hobby. A traveling - this is a hobby that requires a lot of time. How to have time to work and travel? Perhaps you will help tips Eloise, the founder of the popular blog My Favourite Escapes and "freelance" traveler.
I spend in the office full time. Yet often I hear from others: "You are always traveling." In these words there is truth, because to travel as much as possible - my goal.
I call myself a freelance traveler: in my spare time I try to go. And I like it. Although sometimes I visit the dream of a nomadic life, living in a never-ending move, yet I I find a lot of advantages in the status of freelance traveler and benefit from this great pleasure.
If you have a full time job and you feel that you do not have enough time to travel, you may need help in my experience. I'll tell you how to organize their time and travels. Maybe it will inspire you to look at their situation differently.
You have more time than you think
Do you think that you only have four weeks of vacation per year? In fact it is not.
A full working day you have at least 130 days a year to travel.
Seriously, you can spend one-third of the year traveling. This is more than enough, is not it?
Where do these numbers mean? Let's count: 4 weeks of vacation + 52 + 5-10 weekend holiday weekend (28 holiday weekend in Russia in 2015. - Approx. Ed.) The figures may vary depending on the country, but where I lived (in France, England and Australia), the situation was about the same.
Whatever it was, you can take this opportunity to change their lives. Below I will describe the habits and life hacking, which I use to extend the time for travel.
I consider the weekend as two vacation days per week
Whenever possible, I try to go somewhere for the weekend. I also make plans day trips, if you can not get out for the weekend. And when you can, I'm happy to leave on Friday and return on Monday morning.
In two days you can visit and explore the many new places. In fact, travelers rarely stay in one place for longer than two days.
For me, the journey does not mean that I have to go very far away from where I live. This is more a state of mind, a desire to explore something new, curiosity. Have you ever tried to take camera and explore the streets of the city for a long time acquaintance? I always wonder how it is transformed, when I look at it through the eyes of a tourist.
I like adventure
We need to get into the adventure. This is not a life hacking to find more time for travel. This life hacking, to feel as though I have long traveled. Some activities are great help to disconnect from everyday life and really relax. For example, when I came back after two days going hiking or a one-day kayaking trip, when the hand was no electricity, no telephone, I felt as if there was no much more than one weekend.
I have no plans for the weekend Affairs
I try to deal with all household chores before the weekend to spend the time that I had planned. We have to make efforts and for the work week to engage in the laundry, to shop and to maintain cleanliness at home, but there is an opportunity to spend a weekend without a home routine.
I wisely use the holidays
When the weekend stretched to 3-4 days, actually visit several places nearby. The only extra day (or even half of it) opens up new possibilities. I always keep in mind that some places do not get to study at a time. Although it is unpleasant, but it is normal to skip some attractions. After all, I can always go back if the desire to appear.
I share a vacation for a few small trips
Many routes can be divided into a couple of trips. For example, instead of spending all day on a trip to the North Island in New Zealand, I used a three-day weekend to ride on one of the parts of the island. The following two long weekend allowed me to explore other parts of it. As a result, the entire route I took 10 days off, but was not spent any day of the desired holiday.
It is interesting not only to travel, but also to talk about their trips. Therefore, waiting for your stories in the comments!