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You can't comprehend why a single cockroach seen in your house two days ago is still a big deal to your city-fied girlfriend.

The concept of rolling luggage makes you want to hurl.

You go to a chain resturaunt at home and you still feel like a sell-out for not finding a good local place to eat.

You have more guidebooks than pairs of pants.

You don't have a home.

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Originally posted by glissonkid:
You can't comprehend why a single cockroach seen in your house two days ago is still a big deal to your city-fied girlfriend.

I don't think this one is fair. I've done loads of traveling and survived loads of problems but the secound there is a roach in my room I'm screaming at the top of my lungs!

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Originally posted by crackerjillian:
-when you carry toilet paper with you at all times no matter where you are.

And you have "toilet money" in your pocket just in case.

When your first aid and toiletry kits double as your medicine cabinet when you're at home.

When you tell someone about an up coming trip and their response is, "are you nuts?"

When you listen to someone talk their latest tourist trap vacation, complete with 5 star accomodation, gourmet restaurants, first class transportation, and all you can think is "What a sally."

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When you tell someone about an up coming trip and their response is, "are you nuts?"

And you take this as confirmation of a well-made destination choice.

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Originally posted by glissonkid:

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When you tell someone about an up coming trip and their response is, "are you nuts?"

And you take this as confirmation of a well-made destination choice.

and then they ask, "Where the hell is that?"

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and then they ask, "Where the hell is that?"

The only answer to that one is exactly!

You hear the word "visa" and you don't even think about credit cards.

your "home" is occupied by people other than you and all you're worldy possessions fit into your backpack (and what little that doesnt is gathering dust in a box in your parents attic)

To get over post trip blues you start planning another trip...something like drinking to get over the hangover.

your LIST just keeps getting longer!

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Originally posted by Chris Hillcoat:
...when you spell "traveller" with a double l

YAY!!!

You cross the street of your home city and you start getting intriqued by the odd customs of the people around you.

You get a job, but keep on counting the days before you can go out again.

You don't get an apartment for fear a great last-minute fare might pop up.

when your passport has 96 pages full of stamps. and you still have 3 years left on it .

When your friends are no longer your friends!

when you hear people back home tell you that they just spent 45 dollars on getting there nails done and all you can think is do you know how many nights in a south american hostel that could get me

- when after two months at home you start camping in your own garden and refuse to go in for a shower
- when you buy new clothes according to whether they're travel material
- when you're checking your phone book for someone to go to the movies with and realise most people in there are miles away
- when you then find it normal to go out alone
- when the price of pretty much anything you buy is calculated into how many nights in a hostel or a plane ticket to where that would be
- when on a pool party all the girls have beautifully manicured feet and you're so proud of your blisters
- when you can't understand why isn't everybody travelling

You're walking down the street in North Carolina and pick up a dusty, rusted old coin.

You instantly recognize it as a one Baht piece, from the stupas on one side and the (easily identifiable) picture of the King of Thailand on the other.

This just happened to me the other day

When you hang your hammock in the backyard and refuse to sleep in your bed at home

When your friends start making up stories about you "Oh yeah this one time jake was living with cannibalistic midgits in antartica...." to try and make fun of you but all you can think about is how to make it a reality

When you refuse to buy things that would be useful at home but won't fit in your pack.

When your parents give your bedroom away because you are on the road more than you are at home.

When you realize you have a hard time getting along with "un-enlightened non-travelled" people.

When you refuse to watch the news because of the lack of global input.

When your parents call you "liberal" cause you think deforestation in brasil is a problem that should be dealt with or when you talk about the genocide in the sudan and how George W really isn't all about fighting terrorism.

When you tell people you want to go from Phoenix, AZ to Bogota and have to explain to them where bogota is and what you would have to do to make the final leg of the trip possible (Darien Gap) and they tell you "you're gonna die" and you say "Boy i sure hope I at least get kidnapped, it would make for a great story, i could do without the dying but whatever"

When your first question to a potential date is "Have you travelled much?"