Anyone else only got their wanderlust kicking a bit later than the average traveller you see around here? I'm 23 and I haven't travelled much at all, nor did I think much of it until recently. How do you guys deal with the fact that you now have a fuck huge wishlist of destinations and knowing that you wasted all those prime years you could've travelled in?
>>1122633
I just go do things without thinking about how I got started a few years later then most it really isn't a problem at all.
>>1122635
It's even worse when you're still in college and flat broke.
m8 ur 23 you have plenty of prime years left to see the world
Dude I just came back from hitchhiking across the Balkans and I'm 34 yo with a kid. Do what you like dude.
>millenial thinks travelling the world at 23 is being a late bloomer
Jesus christ this generation is beyond entitled
>>1122638
That's what I was thinking. I was 26 before I ever left the state, wtf how old does he think people here are?
>>1123097
This generation really has a big focus on early starters for some reason. I agree with you, it is stupid, but particullarly in Europe there's so many people in their late teens or early teens travelling constantly, the advent of low-cost flights and interrails brought about this new culture of young travelers. It's really hard to explain if you're not living in it, but there's some real pressure to travel while you're young.
>>1123102
Yup, there's definitely a huge travel culture in Europe among young people. It's very different from America.
>>1123116
If anyone here has done Erasmus they probably know what I'm talking about. The people I met during my Erasmus were always obsessed with travelling and 'moblity', which invariably means taking cheap Ryanair flights around Europe and signing up for bullshit exchange programs.
I have a massive list of places I'd love to see, but I don't stress it.
I'd rather stay some time in one place and just take it easy and feel the city instead of jetting through ten cities in 14 days.
Was on Erasmus and a lot of the non-Europeans were out of coutry literally every weekend. They probably ended up seeing more places than I have and I live here. Understandable I guess, but too stressfull for me.
I enjoy travelling more now that I'm 30 to be honest. Can afford better places to stay and better food etc.
Just take it easy.
>>1123128
>were out of coutry literally every weekend
Oh fuck don't even remind me
>Hey you guys wanna go out tonight?
>can't I'm in Malta
>I'm in Ibiza
>I'm in Prague
>I'm in Oslo
>I'm in London
>etc.
Good times
>>1123136
At least I was in Leuven so all the parties were Monday-Thursday and then I could spend the wekend relaxing with some of the other people who stayed behind,
Was pretty creepy having an entire dormitory block for myself though, but that was because the Belgians living there went back to their parents every weekend.
I have a friend who got it after a mI'd 30s trip to Thailand/SEA. Never too late I guess
>>1122633
Thinking you're old at 23 is the most stereotypical "23 year old" thing you could do. You're young as shit, stop being a baby and get out in the world.
>be a few weeks ago
>want to travel with gf
>tell her I'll fly her anywhere in the world she wants to go
>mfw she says Disney world
I have very little desire to travel with her anymore.
Bro i didn't start traveling till i finished college. Don't stress this shit.
>>1123141
> Leuven
well during the weekend there's usually some alternative shit going on in barvista & rumba. But during the week definitely better
I'm 22 but due to being frugal and living with my parents while attending college and working allowed me to travel abroad for the first time. People in their late twenties-late thirties seem to be more the norm because they finally have the financial base to do so (unless there's some sort if exchange program or on their parents buck usually) You've got plenty of years ahead left to travel, don't worry about it.
>>1122633
i dont think younger than 23 is 'prime years' for travelling
i mean its not like 18 and 23 are that much different these days. but why would being young and naive be a plus for travelling
Didn't start till I was 27. Relax.
>>1123464
A lot of it now is study abroad programs for college. I didn't leave New York until my early 20's when I wanted to go places with my girlfriend. Started with a few bullshit cruises to the Caribbean and then out to California. Now I just do little solo trips when I have a few days off around the US and Canada.
>>1122633
better to travel when you're older and wiser rather than 18-19yo and dumb as a bag of rocks
>tfw so god damn jealous while looking through random kikebook posts about travelling from my uni comrades
>most of them are younger than me as well, and already have been on 3+ continents while I've done 1 measly flight in 8 years
Fucking pricks with rich parents, ugh
>>1124970
they're not necessarily rich. i'm dirt poor and I paid for a year of travel with one year of min wage work.
travel is cheap. like really, it is. it's cheaper than LIVING costs in the west.
>>1124968
that seems strange. 19 year olds aren't necessarily stupid. if you were stupid at 19 you shouldn't feel smart now that you're mid 20's. having experience doesn't make you less dumb. though if you're dumb, perhaps you'll feel smarter. kind of like a retard that gets a gold star and feels special.
19 year olds probably have a harder time scoring with hostel sluts though. I barely had a beard at 19.
scoring or not scoring with hostel sluts probs shouldn't determine travel plans tho.
fwiw op, my "prime" years of traveling I was 23-5. I still had endless energy and optimism, but was neither jaded nor totally green.
>>1123119
erasmus people are the worse, my friends are always talking about it like a 'life changing experience', I get it man, you lived in another country for a semester and pretended to study
I guess I'm a bit jelly but there is no reason to have that attitude about it
>>1125001
this desu, my brother works during the summer and travels the rest of the year(our town is all about seasonal work, you make money during the tourist time to live the rest of the year), normally to thailand to train muai thai, but he's beet to most of se asia and australia, NZ, I think japan is next
>>1125007
you sound a little jelly
no one ELSE cares about their trip. let them have fun.
who's to say it wasn't life changing? for some people, playing football or watching television is life changing. if something like erasmus changed their life, their life is either really stupid, or (unlikely) something really cool DID happen and they learned something.
fwiw traveling DID change my life, honestly. it takes a lot of guts, intelligence, and you have to kill an old part of you, but it does happen. don't discount it.