Traveling is a very stressful activity. It begins the moment you decide to take a trip and start planning and ends when all your luggage are packed neatly in the attic, your clothes laundered, dried, and pressed, and your toiletries refilled and ready for reuse.

Go Carting in Benguet (Photos courtesy of Estan Cabigas)

For some, it may mean being back in a desk full of paper work. For others, especially those like me with nomadic tendencies and no schedule for the next day, it means a few more hours of sleep that sometimes gets out of hand causing your head to hurt because of overslumber.

Whether you are leaving on vacation, for work, or both, traveling will have its trade-offs. (1) It requires you to think – something you’ve already been doing in front of your desk. (2) It requires you to eat – something you’re cutting down on because of misproportions of your figure due to stress related activites (3) It requires you to move around – something that most people would rather not do either because of sheer timidity or overfatigue due to work pressure, and (4), it requires you to enjoy – something you couldnt experience when you realize your savings are going down the drain.

Sand Boarding in La Paz, Ilocos Norte

Traveling has benefits too. (1) You get to see that life doesn’t have to be so complicated (2) You get to realize that no matter where you go or what you do, respect is of utmost importance. (3). You get to understand that people are different and relationships are important, and (4) You get to see those nice places, eat those yummy delightful dishes and desserts, learn those cool languages, sleep in those comfy hotel beds, and let everyone know that you’ve been there and they haven’t.

And so whenever you feel like going on a trip and leaving your day job wishing you were out there somewhere, remember that “Traveling is Stressful”! If you’re ok with that, then ill probably see you somewhere, whenever.

Photo Courtesy of Estan Cabigas and Melo Villareal