when is it time to travel?...

Anytime is the simple answer but not always the practical one. Before I left NH when all my peeps were so tired of the "Tom's trip" story, some would express envy and wish they could do the same. I would tell them and anyone that you can be on the road even if it's only one week a year. Save dinero and pick a place where you would love to be and go. Stay your time and then file the memories for some future date in time when you have the freedom or space to be on the road to go back to that place. That's how I found Montezuma and that memory brought me back last year for a week and is taking me back this year for 2 1/2 months. Whatever holiday time you get spend it somewhere that stokes your fire and be me for a week.
We have times of responsibilty and times of necessity but never should we have times of waste. Someone said that I retired in my twenties and then went to work in my thirties and now I'm seriously retired in my sixties. In the midst were my times of responsibilty and necessity, even though the same someone would question the responsibilty part.
Young or old which way to go? I say both because they share the same romance but differ in approach. The spirit of the road I have now is the same as I remember it was then except now there is more consideration for the physical part. The old fart on the road syndrome where you try to carry a lighter pack {not the case here with the pack everything cause you never know boy} and tend to be more judicious about your route with that pack on your back. I'm still going to bungee jump in Gracea Costa Rica but I'm going to take a bus to get there instead of hiking up. I have my siesta now that I didn't have the need for then and of course I pee a lot more than I did then so long bus rides have added urgency. I love the fact that the spirit is still the same, same heart, older frame.
It's not so much the timing as it is the execution. Whether you're on the road when you're young or old, the important part is being on the road.
"Salvatore “Sal” Paradise and his new friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his care-free attitude and sense for adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks, and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal’s travels." Find your inspiration like Sal did with Dean in On the Road and find that person in you, who like Dean, is "tremendously excited with life." TmO...