The Great Wall wasn’t the only wall we hit on our trip through China. After nearly 7 months of traveling, we also hit the proverbial wall – we were getting tired.
The last couple of weeks had been a little grueling, and for some reason Beijing was just rubbing us the wrong way. I found that I was taking fewer and fewer pictures, writing fewer blog posts (did you notice?), and generally losing my enthusiasm for new experiences.
It’s strange – being on this trip I sometimes feel like every day I should be out doing something amazing, seeing something incredible. Actually, I spend a lot of time just trying to figure things out – where to stay, where to eat, how to communicate, how to stay safe – it gets old after awhile.
Maybe after all this traveling, what we needed was a vacation.
But there was no time for that, not yet – we had to catch our flight to Xi’an.
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I think that happens when you are on a tight schedule. Many world travelers actually stay a while in one place as there center point for a month in a country and see that country from that center point or choose one place that is just to relax, do nothing, and rejuvenate from all the plane hopping from one city to the other.
Thanks for the comment, Lilliy! Yep, that’s the lesson here. I think that’s especially important when you’re traveling with children.We eventually recovered and found our second wind.
Hi, I randomly found your blog when doing some travel research. Don’t beat yourselves up about China – it’s a real hard work country, and a county a lot of people want to see, but once they’ve been they’re done and they’d never go back. Hope the rest of your travels are amazing though – I’ll be coming back to look sometime!
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