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After the big trip They came, went... and did it! But where are they now? DID that big trip change their lives? What to do with all the travel experience and how to use it? How to get a job afterwards! Was the trip the best - or worst - thing you ever did?
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Is it so the avery trip is a success?
And trip traveller/adventurec has an fantastic experience ?


Or is it so that there are others.
That found out that it was a misstake to start that long trip/adventure

But they do not publish their story.
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Every big trip will change you. I think always for the best.

But once your eyes have been opened they can never be closed.

Travel gives you the gift of perspective. But takes away the bliss of ignorance.
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Every big trip will change you. I think always for the best.

This!


Also, success depends on how you define it. On our last big trip we totally failed at our plan of riding the Pamir and somehow ended up at Nordkapp. Depending on your point of view that could definitely be called a failure. But if you're travelling for the experience rather than the destination that doesn't matter so much. And we definitely did have a very rich experience on that trip.
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MY goal was Tierra del Fuego, stopped at Southern Bolivia--a failure. Returned to Lima, worked as an illegal alien for one and a half years--unexpected success. Sometimes a loss can be a gain.
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My trip in Peru was a fabulous success.

I rode through some amazing places......





saw things I never see at home.....





I also broke my leg, and was misdiagnosed at a local hospital with a sprained ankle. And it did take me a week on crutches, taxis and buses to finally get on an airplane home. And it was painful at times. And I did go through surgery....



................and it did take several months of hard work to get my leg working right again.

Certainly not a failed trip. It wasn't all fun, but it was definitely challenging in many ways. I did perservere through it all and came out feeling competent and ready to go again.

...............shu
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I got known better to the stranger living still inside me.

Sometimes it was pure joy, sometimes I got amazed and sometime it challenged me.

To experience this is a success.
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Every trip has ups and downs.
It's different for everybody.

A trip ends when you have reached your time limit or your destination or the money runs out so many other reasons.

If at the end you look at it as a failure is up to you.

A possebility for failure is if someone has never travelled for more than 2-4 weeks and then goes on a RTW with giving up everything at home and then realyse that this insn't his thing and goes home with a bad taste.

If someone doesn't like travelling, he will not do it for 6 month or a year or more.

Finacially every of my trips was a failure, I started with a nice bankaccount and at the end it was gone.


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