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Five ways you can get over long-term travel burnout

Plus my plans for the next few months.

Sara Burdick
6 min readSep 3, 2023
The cows are tired, too

For the last few months, I have been traveling extremely fast, mainly due to meeting people and wanting to make the most of my time here in Georgia.

Mostly because I have accepted that this trip to this side of the world will be my last for a while, which has caused me to stress and question my decision multiple times, yet it is one that I have finally accepted, at least for now.

When I started traveling five years ago (to this month!), I had a goal: to see as much of the world as possible, to record and write about all my experiences. At that time, I had a full-time job until the world shut down.

My feelings on Buenos Aires street art.

Although having a real job gave me stability, I knew that I had an income coming in. SO I should add becoming a full-time creator two years ago, travel, volunteering, and the stress of where my next dollar would come from have led to travel burnout.

Which is weird since this is the first time I have experienced this. I can tell you that I have not slept well for over a month, until last night.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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