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Maybe more of a slow burn than an instant reaction but I think it could be hard.
Comeback has been very gradual for us and more like ups and downs than shocks, but overall took us about a year to stop thinking about the trip constantly. 6y later, I think the simplicity of living off few things, limited to what you have in your bags while travelling is still very much ingrained in our lifestyle almost as if we were ready to leave again at any point and didn't want to have to get rid of too much.
mainly related to working less and going on holiday more.
The thing that changed the most for us was our expectation of future trips, but then we had our daughter and all went out of the window anyway.
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Cheers. Good to hear you've still got plenty of time.
Would love to emulate your trip but I think, for us, the practical alternative is lots of smaller trips.
What do you mean "no book"?! Damnit we want a book and we want it now!
(jokes, obvs) ;)
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Before starting I thought we might go totally feral and not be able to spend time inside - this never happened and every time we get a bed or any kind of big town living I love it and don’t want to leave. I think the lack of outside time, seeing animals everywhere and a different landscape daily is going to be a struggle though. Maybe more of a slow burn than an instant reaction but I think it could be hard.
Book - absolutely not, it’s been a running joke with my partner and I and we’ve been asked the question countless times at this point. This route is well documented and there are hundreds of people on the road riding it each year. I don’t think we have a particularly unique perspective or experience and travel writing which just lists the things you did/saw get pretty dull after a page or two.
Work - thanks to Liz Truss our mortgage will need attending to pretty soon after we get back so work is more pressing than we’d hoped. As we’ve travelled and met people doing a similar thing so many of them have no idea what they want to return to once it’s all over. They want to change where they live, how they live, work etc, we’ve realised that (at least in theory) we love our old lives and just need to make some tweaks - mainly related to working less and going on holiday more.
Flights home from Buenos Aires are in mid April so we’ll have about 3 weeks there to find an Airbnb and decompress before the shock of coming home. It’s going to be a headfuck but right now I’m looking forward to it.
Pathlesspedalled Russ describes long term touring as “not the good life but a different life”. Right now we’re ready for home again - at least for a while.