37 Ways you know you’re a travel addict when…

I think about travel everyday. I find my fingers hurt when I need to find out something about a place I want to explore. It is like a drug that you want over and over but you will not seek a cure. Being a travel addict is the best addiction I can think of. I am an addict and I am okay!

1. You frequently find yourself saying: “That reminds me of the time, when I was in…(insert name of random country).
2. You have to order new pages for your passport.
3. Sometimes I think the only reason I work is so I can afford to upgrade your my next trip.
4. You read the acronym RTW and immediately know that it stands for Round The World.
5. You read guidebooks for fun.
6. I can justify spending money on travel
7. You can name airport codes
8. Booking flights gives me a high and I get very excited.
9. You don’t have paintings on the wall, you have maps.
10.  Some people cry when they leave home. You cry when you have to go back.
11. On your home-ward flight, you’re already planning your next trip. My kids will tell you this for sure.
12. Once home, you’re already booking the trip you will take next.
13. I hear music and I think about places on my travels I have played it.
14. I see movies sometimes just to see where the movie is filmed.
15. When you’re in between fixes (er, trips), sometimes the only activities that get you through the day are reading inspirational travel quotes or Google images searching the word “Thailand”.
16. When you go to purchase a coffee at 7-11, finding the correct change takes forever because you have to first sort through the four different coin currencies spilling from your wallet..
17. You lie when it’s time to renew your passport and say that it was stolen…all so that you can hold onto your hard-earned passport stamp collection.
18. You keep your Visas in your passport because they are beautiful.
19. You have elite flier status on multiple airlines.
20. I eat at certain restaurants because I can earn points.
21.  Whenever you’re home for a while, the urge to hit the road again is so strong you avoid the travel section of the bookstore. It just hurts too much.
22. Your mother or friends worry about you and suggest that perhaps you’re using travel as a means of “running away from….”.
23. Your house is on fire and you’re only able save one thing, and you chose your travel scrapbook.
24. You haven’t bought new clothes or  had a haircut in over a year, because you’d rather use that money towards funding an extra night in (insert name of next vacation destination).
25. You use skype more often than your cell phone because most of your friends are scattered around the globe.
26. You large phone is really used for  the GPS, travel apps and skype.
27. All you want for Christmas is an electronic translator.
28. I look and touch the visa stamps in my passport and get chills.
29. I work to fund my trips.
30. When I am not traveling I am dreaming about where I could be.
31. I can taste and smell the places I have been and when I tell people this they do look at me strange. My kids don’t
32. You subscribe to multiple travel magazines.
33. You can identify planes just by looking at the.
34. You look around the house to sell things that you don’t need so you could go to a foreign market and buy something else.
35. My daughter who is also a travel addict would rather have a travel voucher than a new anything.
36. I look at my suitcase and get excited.
37. When you get on airplane and you get, ” ah let’s just say, get excited”.