LoveItaly

Your dentist office knows they have to make your next teeth cleaning appointment around your trips. Although this year that was not a problem for them, sigh.

elizabeth_reed

... when you've got a pair of contacts in your medicine cabinet AND small tote.

LilyLace

.....when you quit taking the little soaps and shampoos because they will only weigh down your carry-on


....when someone asks you where you are going next and you say Baltimore and then remember the trip to London as if it is just an annoyance before Baltimore.....

GoTravel

When you have restaurants in five different states programmed into your cell phone speed dial.

When it stops bothering you that morons ask your husband "you really let her travel that much?".

beckers2482

...when you know, by room number, which ones are "the good rooms" at your hotel.

...when you have to stop at the front desk on the way in to your hotel after dinner because you can't remember your room number. Was it 210, 410, 415, 514, ... you have stayed in all of them in the last week.

...when you begin to see continental breakfast as a challenge to your creativity.

...when you get home and expect a continental breakfast and coffee to be ready when you wake up.

...when it no longer bothers you to go to the vending machines in your pajamas and face cream.

easytraveler

This is fun! Here's a partial list:

--when you emerge from your hometown grocery store and can't find the rental car you were supposed to have gotten that morning. You walk by your own car and think to yourself: "Gee, that looks just like my car at home!"

--When you pour a glass of wine with breakfast because your time zones are so screwed up

-- When you know your own passport # better than your SS#

-- When you go to a European ATM trying to get EUROS and the machine keeps giving you Swiss Francs. So you walk up to the local stranger and ask why the machine is giving Swiss Francs when you want EUROS and the kindly Swiss gentleman stares at you dumbfounded

-- When you start speaking in a foreign language to natives in another foreign language and they stare at you dumbfounded

-- When you ask directions to Cape Cod for your free weekend and the secretary in the Boston office stares at you dumbfounded because she has never been out of Boston and can't understand why you want to go so "far"

--When you stare yourself dumbfounded at the cabinet where you hide all the little goodies - shampoo, lotion, conditioner, soap - and whisper to yourself "Strange! How come there's no more space when I just cleaned this thing out last....!"

--When you have been going consistently week after week to the same hotel and taken home their free rubber ducks so that now your bathroom is lined with an army of rubber duckies

--when you have so many pairs of duplicate glasses, you carry two pairs of sunglasses to Europe/Asia but no reading glasses

--when you find yourself trying to communicate and trangular via cellphone with colleagues and strangers over exactly which freeway exit to take, only to find that they're in Chicago and you're in Portland, Oregon, and you have misjudged everything by one day

--when you appear at the front desk of a hotel and can't remember if the reservation was for this week or for next week

--when you spend more time removing the travel tags from your luggage than you spend time packing your luggage

--when you not only can't remember which country you are in, but when you open your little doctor's bag of adapters, you don't know which adapter to use

--when your boss calls you in your hotel at 2am and sounds disgustingly cheerful because he's just gotten to his office by 8am his time

--when you start longing for a MacDonald's hamburger in a country where no McDs exist and know that you NEVER eat McD hamburgers when home

msmolly

...when you panick when people ask you where you live
..when you childs orth this you are a jet setter or a gyspy
...when you can make creative appitizer with breakfast bar items( devil eggs with capers)
...when you have forgotten what a key ring is

Molly

gc

WHEN YOU CAN'T GO TO SEE THE RED SOX IN THE WORLD SERIES 'CUZ YOU'LL BE ON THE ROAD....AAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

GoTravel

"..when you childs orth this you are a jet setter or a gyspy"

molly, I've read this five times. What are you saying?

bob_brown

I on one occasion got off the route I had planned. I stopped in a little town in south Georgia, where much of my family was born, and went into a Dairy Queen to ask for help.

I said to the girl working the counter, "Can you tell me where I am?"
She looked at me sort of funny, and said very slowly and distinctly in her tidelands Southern drawl, "Day rey Queeeen".

Scarlett

molly sounds like I do when I come home from the dentist..novocaine makes one say things like "orth"...

GoTravel

Make that ten times and I still can't figure it out.

Not that it is important, my curiosity is getting the best of me.

seetheworld

"You no longer bother to tell your spouse where you're going
-- You forget to tell your spouse you're going at all!"

Thank goodness you said that SenecaGirl, I thought that only happened in my house!

Scarlett

when you no longer have to tell the driver which airlines terminal to go to..

beckers2482

I think Molly means "when your child's orthodontist thinks you are a jet setter or a gypsy".

Ryan

When you're able to answer questions on the Fodor's travel board about places like Bentonville, Arkansas; North Wilkesboro, NC; Columbus, Indiana; etc, etc, etc, etc.

GoTravel

Thank you beckers! Now it makes sense!

LOL Ryan! That is so true.

SenecaGirl

seetheworld -- I'm glad I'm not the only one...that was a pretty low point for me whe my hubby asked when I was coming home from work and I answered "tomorrow...didn't you know I am travling?"

By the way -- this is the best post ever -- no one is challenging each other, making anyone mad, saying mean things...thanks!

seetheworld

You know you've been traveling too much when...

the dog barks and growls at you because he thinks you are an intruder!

shannon44

When your in-laws suspct you're some sort of "secret agent", and are worried about your "clueless" wife (like in the film "True Lies".) Only, your wife has been onto you for years!