Travel and Lifestyle

When you travel, what is your lifestyle? Do you like to be pampered in luxury, or rough it, or even endanger yourself, or be comfortable, safe and in familiar situations? Travelling has different lifestyles for different people. Your clothes, gear, luggage, footwear, and activities are dependent on several factors in addition to the destination you are heading for. Perhaps the two other most important factors are that your personal preferred lifestyle contributes to the kind of travel you want, and budget figures into your travel lifestyle as well.
     Below: This is probably the image most of us think of when we want to 'get away'; relaxing on a beach, somewhere tropical. This is by far the most popular form of travel lifestyle for those on a honeymoon. You might even have the actual marriage take place there too! When we take vacations from our jobs and busy lifestyle, we usually want to visit a place that has sun, openness, view, water, and comfortable, even romantic, rooms.

When deciding on a holiday, you'll have to start with deciding what you would like to DO on a holiday. It is essential to answer this question before you pick out the destination for your vacation. If you want to relax and unwind, your destination will probably be quite different than if you want adventure and action, or if you have kids.

Families with children should make sure that they go to a place with many activities to keep the kids busy and happy. On the other hand if there are only adults you may want to do something different on your holiday, like taking a relaxing vacation or a working break, or even a strenuous, slightly dangerous no-kids-allowed adventure vacation.

Travel and lifestyle are locked together, even though this is something most people don't think of consciously. If you are rich, your options are quite different than if you are not wealthy. The good news is: the rich and the not-so-rich alike can all have great vacations. When you travel on a simpler budget, you find more do-it-yourself kind of vacations. The kind where you really get close with the area you are visiting, get your hands and shoes dirty, get worn out, get helped, meet the people in more than a touristy way.

Dressing well, looking successful, hitting the beach for that tan, how you look and what pleasant little stories you can tell back home upon returning, this kind of travel is still what most people go for, and most people are a little afraid of going 'outside the box' when in foreign areas on vacation. But when you start to rough it, do some hiking, eco tours, adventure travel, camp out with the natives, get muddy and get blisters... whatever you think of that kind of travel lifestyle before you do it... AFTER you do it, you feel a little magic, a little accomplishment. That's the kind of travel lifestyle I love.

Of course, I wouldn't turn down a rich vacation either, if it was thrown at me. As long as I can still get my feet dirty and meet the locals as more than a tourist, I'm in. But I guess we all have to find our own combination of travelling lifestyles and interests.