How to Fuel Your Wanderlust While Practising Social Distancing From Home

The world has come to a standstill as the coronavirus pandemic looms large. Governments across the globe have begun to shut down public transport, and are urging people to avoid travelling unless necessary. People are either already confined to their homes or are planning to. Work from home has been made mandatory in some parts of the country. The gravity of the situation requires us to not travel anywhere for leisure, and we are resolved to adhere to it too. Restlessness and wanderlust is real, and those who are observing self-isolation, are feeling it the most.

How do we deal with it?

While you can't travel now, there are many ways you can fuel your wanderlust while practising social distancing from home:

1. Write about your travel journeys

When we are busy travelling, we rarely get the time to document our journey. Writing down your travel stories will not just make you happy and calm but it is one of the best ways to keep your memories alive. A video may show you what a place is like, but when you write down your travel experience, you will realise that there are so many more ways to describe a place you have been to. Travelogues are full of emotions and anecdotes that you may not remember later when time flies.

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2. Make a travel scrapbook or an album

We lost those good old scrapbooks and albums to the digital era. It is time that we revive this therapeutic craft. Apart from print outs of your travel photographs, you can use travel tickets, passes, currencies and objects from your favourite destinations, and create a fabulous scrapbook which may not necessarily be two dimensional.

3. Create travel art

You can paint your wall with the places you have travelled to or decorate your room with objects collected from across the world. Draw postcards for destinations and gift them to friends or simply scribble down the names of the places you have been to on your backpack. Creativity has no limits.

4. Revive your Instagram

You took more than a thousand pictures on each of your trips but never had the time to even look at all of them. It is time to look at those pictures and up your Instagram game. Learn all the features of Instagram, and get skilled with editing. In a few days you will be ready to dazzle the world with your amazing travel posts.

5. Experience virtual reality travel

Virtual Reality travel is already here and you can travel anywhere in the world sitting in your home with VR apps and gadgets. Read about how you can enjoy travel from your bedroom here.

6. Experience travel through books and videos

Now that you have a lot of time to settle down and read, you can pick up some good travel books and relive your travelling days. The number of travel channels on YouTube is endless and you can subscribe to a few of them to not just enjoy beautiful landscapes but also learn a lot about fascinating destinations.

These are some books on travel that you may consider reading.

These are some travel channels that you may consider subscribing to.

7. Plan your trips better

The opportunity to travel may seem bleak right now, but that will not always be the case. The situation will get better in a while, until then you can research in details about the places you wanted to visit, plan your travel and make the bookings at the right time.

Nothing can beat the feeling of liberty that travel gives us. But sometimes we have to make compromises. You can enjoy the above activities for now with the hope that it will soon get safe to quench our wanderlust again.

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