Ease Your Wanderlust While Waiting For Your Next Trip

　                                                                        “Explore, Dream, Discover”

These three words perfectly define a travel lover. Some say that people travel frequently just for an experience. But that’s not true; if you are a frequent travel lover, then traveling becomes very crucial part of your lifestyle. Traveling makes travel lovers feel fulfilled and complete. If you are feeling anxious and uncomfortable and just waiting for your next trip, then it sounds like you are having a wanderlust.

No matter what’s your personality or how you look or where you live, if you are a travel lover you will feel little agitated if you are stuck in one place for a very long time. You will constantly keep on revisiting your last trip memories. The obsession to travel new places will keep strengthening. So, to control all these emotions and give some ease to your wanderlust, here are some tips that can surely help you.

Take a short day trip

According to a study a simple planning of a trip can boost your mind. Use your weekend for a day trip and design it in such a way that you can leave and come back on the same day. Start by selecting a park or a city within about an hour drive and do research on what shops and attractions it has to offers. Look for some exciting Friday celebrations, interesting shops, restaurants and cultural events. Once you are done with planning your trip, now it is time to pick a day and explore the new place.

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Go through travel media

An inexpensive way of passing time between your next trip is to start reading travel books or magazines and watching travel related movies. By reading books you will get to know about the places that you have never explored and will find some suggestions as well as tips about traveling which will boost your travel energy. Another option is to watch some IMAX movies or documentaries; they will give you the feel as if you are actually visiting that place and you are at the middle of the action. This will give some ease to your wanderlust.

Staycation

Tired of driving? Take a staycation in your own town. We always think that we know the place very well, where we live, but actually we do miss out some great places. So let’s start the same research again, but apply it to nearby places, preferably at walking distance. Exploring locally will save your money as well as will give you a feeling of staying at home. There are many other options to relax during staycation, you can try shopping, or can watch movie in local theater or even go for swimming and spend your whole day just relaxing.

Plan a cultural day

For calming your wanderlust, plan a day to involve yourself totally in exploring a certain untouched corner of the place you’ve been living in since so long. Any location would work, be it the place you always wanted to visit or you were always curious about. Pick up some local music or movie set or browse some websites that focuses specifically on your area of interest. Plan the day and completely immerse yourself in the music, films and food. By doing this you will learn more about your region and will get a happy feeling of traveling without even leaving your home.

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Best from all, Get into nature

Don’t want to be in the city but don’t want to drive, then hiking can help you out with that. A study has shown that 90 minutes of hiking reduces stress and negative thoughts. Hiking is very beneficial, it increase your immune system and reduces inflammation. Browse some great hiking club in your area and register yourself. As per your personality, you can go for hiking alone and could even invite a friend. Join some hiking group, they are extremely friendly and welcome new members with excitement. Best way to get rid of your wanderlust and awesome way to get connected to nature, which will rejuvenate you as well as refresh you.

There are plenty of ways to ease your wanderlust without getting on a plane. Hope these few ways will help you out with that. We will be back with some more exciting and interesting topics to help you out to enhance your traveling experience. Till then keep Traveling and Exploring.