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When nutella with nothing else, just straight out the jar, sounds like a great meal.

When you truly don't mind being completely bagged down, too hot (or too cold) and have to walk an extra two miles to go to the guest house/nature place/restaurant/club that you REALLY want to go to.

You rech your thirties and your planning your next trip.

You come home and your friends are married with kids and despise your way of life.

You come home and your little cousin is bigger than you.

When you come home from a long journey and people ask you, "Were you able to find yourself?" And you say, "Yeah, and I think I left it there. I need to go back."

You've mastered 'the squat' and think of toilet paper as a luxury.

Your first question when taking a new job isn't the pay, but how much time off you get.

You cringe a little when you see a woman holding a baby or an old guy with a cane, because you think they're going to hit you up for 'one rupee'

You close your eyes in nostalgia when crossing a polluted river because the smell reminds you of the Ganges or the Canal Grande.

You hesitate before drinking tap water at a restaurant and ask if the lassi at your local Indian joint has ice in it.

You eschew shiny new luggage in favor of your ten-year-old pack which carries the scuffs and dirt of three continents and which you have lovingly repaired by hand

You use this same pack to schlep your dirty clothes to the laundromat so it feels like you're still traveling

You look at the clock and think, 'In Kathmandu, it's midnight'.

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Originally posted by hawaiiansnowlion:


You use this same pack to schlep your dirty clothes to the laundromat so it feels like you're still traveling

You look at the clock and think, 'In Kathmandu, it's midnight'.

YES! I love these! I just did the laundromat thing last night actually.

That toilet paper as a luxery thing is right on man...

Okay so you are in a train station and see the cover of the latest National Geographic Magazine and you think "hey I was JUST there!"
Booya.
P.S. I bought the magazine

When the 'Travel' section is the first thing you read in the Sunday newspaper.

When you know what M.O.C. stands for and you consider it one of the best ways to get a EU citizenship....

...........when you bow to an important visitor instead of shaking his hand

(This happened when I met former president Carter, the look he gave me was priceless)

............when you can understand all forms of english accent and even help out your american friends when they talk to each other.

Trekker

Starving, you stumble off your flight to the airport McDs, and to your chagrin, the value meal is the most expensive meal you've had in weeks.

when you look at the toilet and wonder "how am i supposed to squat over something that high?"

When you know the exchange rates for any three currencies (other than your own) and can calculate the exchange rates between any of those currencies on demand.

you know you're a backpacker when:

-you can't remember the last time you washed sheets.

-you have a deja-vu hangover in the middle of the import beer section at the liquor store back home.

-you give up shaving entirely.

-you can't remember exactly when you decided to stop shaving.

-all your friends are married and you don't even own a mattress.

-you don't own a calendar.

-buying a full-sized bottle of shampoo/toothpaste/etc feels like a "long-term investment."

....when you have a framed black and white photo of your backpack hanging on your wall.

... when you don't mind brushing your teeth using bottled water.

... when you don't care what time you go to bed nor what time you wake up. (of course that could also be: You know when you are unemployed when...)

...you know what time is being referred to when the ticket reads "2330".

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Originally posted by Skimaxpower:
-buying a full-sized bottle of shampoo/toothpaste/etc feels like a "long-term investment."

Halarious! That is exactly how I felt on my last trip. That and I wondered if with the Shampoo and Conditioner I so extravagently spurged on...if I really wanted to carry that around with me...*sigh*.

....you spend X amount of money on something (like $550 to fix your air conditioner, let's say) and think, "Aw man, that's enough money for a plane ticket to ___________"

Hehe, i did that very thing last night! My mother bought a pair of very expensive pants that she is very proud of and asked my opinion, my reply... i could get a plane ticket to Cape Town for that price... hehe!

Someone explains the concepts of websites like BNA, couchsurfing and rideshare and you join up to them thinking they are fantastic ideas and wish you had thought of them first!

You then explain these to friends and family and they all think you are completely nuts to be meeting up with, staying with and driving with complete strangers that you talk to over the Internet.

Michelle