Ine Vandenwyngaert
17 Travel-Inspired Things to Do at Home: Fuel your Wanderlust!
Updated: Dec 5, 2022
With the current travel bans on international travel, we’ll have to find things to do from home. We’ll all have to put our travel plans on hold for a while… but that doesn’t mean that we can’t dream and think about traveling. Traveling is so much more than the actual trip itself. Whether we are searching the internet for inspiration on future trips, putting together a photo album of our past trips, or cooking our favorite dishes from abroad. Traveling is with us everywhere we go, even at home. And it’s those travel-inspired things that fuel our wanderlust and let us feel like we are someplace else for a moment. To help you reignite that travel spark, we have put together a list of 17 travel-inspired things to do at home. We hope that these will help you feel inspired to travel more in the months and years to come.
1. Create a travel bucket list!
Now is the perfect time to think about all the things you still want to see, try, and experience in your life. From visiting the 7 World Wonders to swimming with great white sharks and sailing around the world. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
Find inspiration on travel blogs or by watching travel videos online! Then, write down all the activities and places that you like in your travel notebook.
Once we are allowed to travel again, it is time to start ticking them off. Don’t just dream of going to these places, but get out there and do it!
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2. Read travel-inspired books
Reading books are the perfect way to relieve stress from the daily pressures of life. It makes you forget about your worries and problems for a little while. This is something we all need right now!
Even more, travel-inspired books allow you to escape to another place without leaving your home. They are a great source of inspiration for your next adventure. Whether you choose a book that is completely fiction, based on a traveler’s own experience, or purely informational, the choice is up to you.
The following books are our personal recommendations for people who love traveling:
The alchemist (Paulo Coelho) – An inspiring story about following your dreams
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure (Christopher S Stewart) – A true story about an exploration in the Honduras jungle in search of the ‘Gold City’
Wild (Cheryl Strayed) - A memoir of the 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) – The true story of Christopher McCandless who left home to find some sort of enlightenment
On the Road (Jack Kerouac) – A story based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States
Hippie (Paulo Coelho) – Autobiography of Coelho traveling the world and believing in peace, love, and freedom
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - The story of a young Afghan boy during times of the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.
3. Create a photo book or scrapbook with all your travel pictures
If you feel like you have a lot of leisure time at home, it is the perfect time to go through all your travel pictures. Pick your favorite ones and collect them in a photo book or scrapbook. It is a great way to reminisce about your travels and relive your favorite times abroad. Besides, this collection of memories is a great visualization of your travel stories to share with your friends, family, and maybe even (in the future) your children and grandchildren!