Why you have more travel time than you think

time. There seems to be no enough forever. It always seems to go too fast (and it seems to move faster every year).

Time is always telling me that they don’t have enough things, which is one of the main reasons why they don’t travel at will. (Money is also a problem, I’ve talked about it here.)

Although Covid has changed the concept of offices, there are now more digital nomads and remote workers, not everyone can work remotely.

But even if they don’t want to be nomads, most office jobs I know (especially Americans) want to travel more than they do. They just feel like they don’t have time.

They were wrong.

This is why.

Suppose you work 50 weeks a year and get a two-week vacation. (Not an American? Then you might get more, which is great.) Calculate your holiday time and each weekend brings the total number of each year, and you can travel to 110 (104 weekend days, plus 10 days of a two-week holiday). This is a lot of time to travel. We can add more days to the total during three-day weekends and holidays. This may not be all continuous, but there are a lot you can do in so much time.

Let’s consider a second: more than 110 days of free time per year. That’s very close Four months Potential travel time every year! Four months! This world is your oyster, for so long.

When we look at this way, our busy schedules become more open. What were you doing at that time?

It’s all about priorities. Yes, we have certain obligations in our daily lives that require time, but if you really want something, you will find a way to achieve this. Like when I said I didn’t have time to go to the gym. I have a lot of Time to go to the gym; I just spent this time elsewhere.

Because the gym is not a priority for me (although it should be).

Furthermore, most people associate “travel” with long-term, large, expensive travel, thus discounting all short-term travel methods. When people think “I want to travel,” they envision a two-week vacation, a cruise ship or a long multiple-month journey. This is a great journey to the distant land.

That’s not their fault. That’s how tourism tells us we need to travel because long distances mean people spend more money. We internalize this concept without considering other options.

And, if you hear enough, you believe it. I used to. That’s why Jessica will never go to Ireland and Bob will always be the hate.

But if Covid has taught us anything, it is that there is a lot to see and be near home. As we have seen, even if you don’t have a few months of travel time, you still have 110 days of potential trips a year. If you make it a priority, you can certainly travel more.

But what do you do? What kind of travel can you do on a smaller time scale? Here are some travel ideas that can help you plan your trip when you have limited time:

1. Spend a weekend vacation

Spend a weekend somewhere. Two days aren’t a lot of time, but it’s still enough to explore a city, town or camp near your national park. I used to spend a lot of time in New York City. From there, the weekend will include trips to Atlantic City, Fire Island, Hampton, Berkshire, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. – these are just a few hours away!

Try to include more weekend trips. It can help you break your daily routine and keep your trip lust checked until your next big trip. Even a few days are better than nothing!

2. Get close to somewhere

Only one week? Don’t travel halfway around the world and waste a lot of time reaching your destination. Walk a short place.

Living in Miami and Fiji too far? Go to Central America!

Are they too far away in Sydney and Los Angeles? Walk to Hawaii halfway, visit New Zealand, or pop up a Pacific island nation!

In Europe? Well, 90% of the mainland is a three-hour flight, so you’re ready!

Stay close and you need less time to do what you want. Additionally, the best flight deals you can find are usually targeting destinations near you. So be flexible.

Anywhere you have never been to is a great place.

And, when you travel, it’s always more.

3. Become a local tourist

I think people are often tourists in their own city. How often do you visit the museum, explore new areas in the town or visit the city’s main attractions? I know New Yorkers who have never been to the metropolitan, Bostonians who have never walked the free trail and Amsterdamians who have never wandered in the red light district.

On weekends, move out of your house, enter cheap accommodation, and become a tourist. I love to play tourists in my own city because it helps you learn and understand where you are.

There are so many things around that you may not take advantage of your strengths when you are busy living your normal life, so when you stop for a second, you will find a lot of exciting activities to fill your time.

After all, travel is about seeing and learning new things – this can happen in your own backyard!

What’s important: If you’re going to do this, stay where it’s not your home, so it feels more like a holiday. Otherwise, waking up, running some errands and then “running out time” would be too tempting. To do this, you need to break the routine – it’s important not to stay at home.

4. Maximize your time

Don’t try to see everything in the sun. You’ll run too much. I sent a lot of emails from half of Europe who hope to see half of Europe in two weeks or want to conquer South America in one month.

It’s easy to be burdened by the trip when you think it’s something you have to travel and try to stuff everything into everything. You look at all these destinations, overwhelmed, realize there isn’t enough time, give up and stick with it until you “have” the time.

I know you don’t have much holiday and want to see a lot, but don’t! Sticking to one or two places suddenly opened up a lot of time and opportunities! You will never be able to see it all. Even following my open schedule, I still can’t see everything I want. I stopped trying a long time ago. On travel, less. Quality is better than quantity.

You may not have traveled for months, but that doesn’t mean you can’t travel at all. There are many ways to get out of the world on budget without having to be a nomad like me. Telling yourself that you don’t have time is just an excuse.

You do have time and you can learn better travel skills. The problem is that you may not be thinking about how to spend this time outside of a typical “two-week vacation.”

So next time you think “I don’t have time”, consider all the places you can explore. Yes, you will have errands and things that need your attention. But by effectively utilizing your time, prioritizing travel and thinking outside the box, you will find yourself Do Have time to explore the world.

Travel is about exploring, and exploration can be done at any time.

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