How to Keep The Travel Spirit Alive While at Home

10 Ways to Keep The Travel Spirit Alive While at Home

Keep The Travel Spirit Alive When You’re Not Traveling!

We all know the feeling after returning from an amazing trip. Sometimes, getting back to the daily routine can be really hard and all we went to do is to book another trip and flee from our everyday life.

However, that’s often not possible due to work, financial situation or other things.
What is possible tho is to make the time until your next trip more bearable.

To help you with it, I’m sharing 10 easy ways to keep the travel spirit alive while at home. In that way, you can happily look forward until you can finally pack your bags again!

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1. Organize Your Travel Photos

The first way to keep the travel spirit alive is to sort and organize photos from previous trips.

Besides memories, the photos you’ve taken will always remind you of your amazing adventures. It would be a pity if you couldn’t find them anymore so make sure you’ll store them in a safe place.

For example, you can make a photo album (physically or digitally) to collect all the precious moments.

Maybe you captured two or three very special moments that you want to print, frame and decorate your home with.

No matter what you decide to do with your travel photos, looking at them will definitely put a smile on your face and bring back great memories!

Organize Travel Photos

2. Create a World Map

Are you counting the countries you’ve been to? If so, what about a world map with all the places you have explored?

You can either be creative and create one on your own or you can buy a scratch-off map or get a laminated wall map to put pins on. It’s a fantastic feeling to return from a trip and scratch off a country or add one more pin to a place.

Moreover, you can also mark the places you want to explore next, for example, by using a different pin color!

World Map

3. Explore Your Own Backyard

When was the last time you explored your own backyard?

Another easy way to keep the travel spirit alive is to discover unknown places close to your home. Sometimes, this can be even as exciting as traveling to a new destination.

Try to see your own home city through the eyes of a foreigner and you’ll discover many things you haven’t seen before.

Maybe try a new restaurant instead of having lunch at the same place again and again. If possible, rent a bike or a scooter and drive around without having a specific destination in mind.

There are so many different Staycation ideas and they’re the perfect way to get to know your city to the fullest!

How to Keep The Travel Spirit Alive

4. Plan a Short Weekend Trip

If you’re in desperate need of a short getaway, plan a weekend trip to a place nearby. Weekend trips are always great to get a break from your everyday routine.

You don’t necessarily have to fly for that kind of trip.

Simply pick a place located around 2-3 hours from your home that you’ve always wanted to visit. Luckily a year has 52 weekends so you can do many of these short getaways!

5. Reconnect With People You Met

I don’t know about you, but I met so many fascinating people from all over the world on my travels. Reconnecting with them and staying in touch is a great way to keep the travel spirit alive.

Either via Whatsapp, Instagram or Facebook – thanks to the digital age we live in there’s nothing easier than chatting with friends that are 5,000 kilometers away from you.

It’s always interesting to hear what their life in a different country is like and what they’re up to. Maybe you can even plan a future trip together and meet again somewhere on this planet!

Keep in Touch With Friends

6. Start Planning Your Next Trip

You probably just got back from your recent trip but there’s no better time to start planning your next awesome adventure! The best way is if you make a list of destinations you want to visit next.

Do some research about the best travel season, how many days you’d need and what activities you want to do there.

Moreover, you can already start saving some money so you’re able to book your next flight as soon as possible!

Bucket List

7. Help Others Plan Their Trip

Sometimes it’s hard for other people to understand how you feel after coming back from a trip.

Nevertheless, your adventures may have inspired some of your family members and friends to travel somewhere as well. So if not for yourself, why not help your beloved ones to plan an unforgettable trip?

It’s not only a good way to connect better with them but you can also get ideas and discover new, exciting destinations for your own next getaway!

8. Learn a New Language

I know it’s impossible to be able to communicate with everyone on this planet – even though we wish. However, you can easily extend your vocabulary with phrases of a foreign language!

Learning a new language is not only the perfect way to keep the travel spirit alive, but you can also stimulate your brain.

You can either learn the language from a country you’ve already been to or from a destination you’re planning to go to next. Every traveler should know at least a few phrases of the local language.

In my opinion, two of the best places to learn a new language online are Duolingo and Babbel.

How to Keep The Travel Spirit Alive

9. Cook Exotic Dishes

What was the most delicious dish you’ve eaten abroad?

Whether it’s Indian lentil dal or spicy red curry from Thailand, you can easily try and cook it at home!

Of course, it won’t be the same as you’d eaten there but it will most likely bring back some great memories.

In addition, you can improve your skills in the kitchen and even cook for your friends and family! The good thing is no one will know how it actually tastes so even if you screw it up, no one will probably recognize it. 😉

Keep The Travel Spirit Alive

10. Write About Your Travels

Writing about your travels doesn’t necessarily mean you have to start a blog as I did or write an entire book. You can simply put all your amazing travel experiences on paper or screen.

Think about every single detail from your trip and try to remember the most beautiful but also maybe some disappointing moments.

Also, try to relive the taste of the tasty food you tried, the unfamiliar sounds from outside the window and the sight of new places you discovered.

Writing about your travels is also a fantastic way to help you find out what you loved and/or hated about a certain destination.

In that way, you can also fully digest everything you experienced, what you did and maybe also how it changed you as a person.

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Do you have some more ideas on how to keep the travel spirit alive while being stuck in daily life? If so, I’d love to read them so leave them in the comments below!


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Do you want to travel like me?
Here are some of my favorite travel tips and resources:

Flights: I prefer using CheapOair or Skyscanner to book flights. The destination everywhere feature is perfect for finding some cheap deals!

Accommodation: Booking.com is my favorite site to find some great hotel deals. I do love staying at a local place as well, thus I book an Airbnb every now and then.

Travel Insurance: There are many reasons why travel insurance is important and I never travel without having one. I use the simple and flexible one from World Nomads to be protected against unforeseen events.

Tours: I love taking tours to explore destinations like a local. My favorite website to book them in advance is GetYourGuide.

Camera Gear: I use a Nikon D5300 camera with an 18-105 mm and a 10-20 mm wide-angle lens to take my photos.   

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41 Comments

  1. This is amazing Alina! All of these suggestions are perfect and I also like the idea of helping others plan a trip during this time. 🙂

  2. I love this! I have been doing some of the things that you suggested; cooking, travel writing and learning a language!
    Despite The current situation, it’s a great time to try and learn something new 🙂

  3. These are all such great tips. I especially love the idea of writing about past trips and planning the next trip! That way we remember great times and have something to look forward to.

  4. Great tips especially now that we’re all staying put for a bit! Organizing my travel photos is something I’ve been putting off for a while, but so important!

  5. I love these ideas! I just published a similar post but our ideas were totally different! Thanks for sharing yours.

  6. I love all these ideas! I have a habit of printing out my travel photos and mail them as postcards and/or put them on my wall. Makes me so happy to see them everyday!

  7. I love how we wrote about similar stuff! I loved your tip about helping other people plan their trips! I’ve been helping my friend on planning her next trip – whenever that may be!

  8. Amazing ideas and I too love many of things listed above, when I do not travel. My favorites are organizing photos and meeting our friends or relatives.

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