I have to say there have been days of doubt and homesickness on this this trip on the regular.
For me it's moving place to place in airbnbs and hotels. You never know what your gonna get in these places. Your standards might not be theirs. It's hard living in a place that isn't yours with your stuff. You don't realize how important your home is til you don't have it. It's a place of comfort and security.
Going to new places, you hope the neighborhood is decent and safe. We really haven't had a problem with that so far. Where is the grocery store? Figuring out the transportation system. How much is it? Where is it? How do we use it?
In the airbnb how do you operate the stove, dishwasher, washing machine. Instruction manuals online are a beautiful thing.
For M it's all of the above and having to ride the trains from one country or town to another. Sometimes even trying to figure out how to buy tickets is hard. Often if you are going any distance you are riding two or three different train systems. There are times you transfer 2 or 3 times. It's exhausting. The scenery makes up for it though like the route from Geneva to Lyon along the river through the hills was beautiful.
Lastly, this is expensive. Going to major cities is expensive. Even in an airbnb. We had planned to go Berlin in September but it was just too expensive. So we decided to break up September into Vienna, Augsburg, Germany and Lausanne Switzerland and Lyon. We really hadn't had plans to go to Austria or Switzerland but it was probably one of the best parts of the trip.
Vienna was stunning and I want to go back there. Augsburg was fun because of the Plarrer. Switzerland was probably one of the beautiful places in the world.
Paris is another very expensive place even on the outskirts so we have put it off so the prices will be lower. We are in Lyon for 2 weeks because we needed to stop the one week here and there thing. Then the plan is to to Spain for most of October and Paris in November.
Will we continue this for one year? Don't know at this point. If we were to quit after six months, it would be disappointing but not the end of the world. We have done a really cool thing either way. Only time,
and how we feel, will determine it.
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September 18, 2022 at 06:59PM
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