7 Painful Travelers You Will Always Meet On The Road
It doesn’t matter where in the world you go, guaranteed there will always be the same seven people hovering around you. While they may change faces, clothes, gender and hairstyle the fact is that their personality seems destined to follow you to the ends of the earth.
The It’s Not As Good As Home Traveler: This traveler believes that nothing, whether it is Stonehenge, The Pyramids of Giza, or the Pantheon is as good as something back home. 2,000 year history, no one knows how or why it was built, that’s nothing compared to the Alamo or Uluru.
There is nothing in the whole wide world that will impress them anymore because everything’s bigger and better at home. These people will usually corner you on a bus tour when there is no escape, interrupt the tour guide and will talk no matter what you or anyone else says to the contrary. The
Holier Than You Traveler: These travelers have done everything and are now impressed by nothing. They have trekked through the Amazon with no shoes, hiked through the Sahara Desert with no water and will ridicule anyone who hasn’t. But that will not stop them from telling you everything they have done. Say hello to them and prepare for a ten minute spiel on all the different ways they can say hello, who they learnt it from, where they were at the time and how many pieces of toast they had that morning. These people are usually hanging around the culture scene, sneering at everyone.
The Drunk. This person is always found at the bars, hostels or stumbling around at 3am. This person has been living in the one country for two months and so far has seen the inside of the pub, the local police station and the inside of the dumpster out the back. They don’t really want to travel, they just want a new place to drink and a new unsuspecting audience every night to hear about their woeful life.
This person is usually present on those month long bus tours around Europe, where instead of seeing the sights, does a four grand drinking tour – spending the days in a red eyed daze getting photos taken that they won’t remember.
The New Traveller: This person is the hyper ball of fluff that squee’s every time someone does something remotely different. This is the person taking a million photos, documenting every single second of the trip usually rushing to any internet hub at every new city updating their Facebook and Twitter with lots of exclamation points.
They will stand in front of every tourist attraction, take even more photos and will show them off to every single person they know. This person can be found everywhere – there’s no escaping them, they will hunt you down until you have heard everything they have seen.
The Old Traveler: They were in this exact spot twenty year’s ago and everything has gone downhill from then. Back in the old days this little thing cost a penny and we still got enough change to ride the trolley car. These traveler’s are really in essence trying to capture their lost youth. They won’t find it out on the road, so instead will try to leach it from you as you sit there listening to them drone on as you feel the energy being zapped from you.
These travelers are the worst kind as you will wonder why you ever wanted to travel when it seems like grandma is following you around the world anyway.
The LOUD Traveler: EVERYTHING IS SO PRETTY! This traveler unlike the new traveler, who is just overexcited, is just loud. You will always hear them before you see them. Nothing can be done to shut them up. Not until they tell the world exactly what they are thinking. Usually these people will not have a brain to mouth filter and just say anything and everything that pops into their head.
You can’t escape them because they will loudly ask where you’re going every time you try to move away and like the New Traveler they can be found everywhere.
The Travel Book Tourist: These people will not set foot outside the hotel or even their own country, until they have a detailed plan of exactly what they are going to do each day. When they are going to break for lunch, where they will eat, what route they will take. Any deviation from The Plan is not appreciated and will be met with contempt. Do not try and invite this person out for drinks because it is not on The Plan.
These are the same people who usually have a travel guide glued to their face, and they will often be found at museums or approved tourist sites.
These seven people will always be following you around the world, you can’t escape them, and sometimes people have qualities from all seven different types’ travelers. These people are hiding out in the train station, the bus tours, the day trips, those old pubs and on the street. Sometimes you’re travelling with one of them. Try to lose them at the next bus station.
