Feel you! I moved back to the states a few years ago and it has been really difficult.
Adapting to the culture after over a decade away in my late 30s, buying everything and never having money for much, trying and failing to change careers and winding up with a crap job, the car culture that I can’t afford, trying to mend broken relationships that have drifted away from me as people have settled, feeling like an alien because there’s a ton of normal stuff I don’t understand, and withering away because my once vibrant social life has all but disappeared has left me in a huge funk.
However, it had to be done because travel had run its course for me as it does for many people in their 30s, and even though I’m not sure about this life, or continuing life on the road again, I know that I’m ready for the next phase, but I don’t exactly know what that is and that seems to be your problem too. So, I’d say do some soul searching and see if you really want to move home and decide if it’s something you feel like you should do, or if it’s something that you really want to do because you’re ready to tough it until the boring life (and trust me it’s really boring) becomes something rewarding.
Anyhow, hand in there bro! There are a million paths for everyone, and I think you, and I have to find one to take to find the rewards that travel used to give us again.
Feel you! I moved back to the states a few years ago and it has been really difficult.
Adapting to the culture after over a decade away in my late 30s, buying everything and never having money for much, trying and failing to change careers and winding up with a crap job, the car culture that I can’t afford, trying to mend broken relationships that have drifted away from me as people have settled, feeling like an alien because there’s a ton of normal stuff I don’t understand, and withering away because my once vibrant social life has all but disappeared has left me in a huge funk.
However, it had to be done because travel had run its course for me as it does for many people in their 30s, and even though I’m not sure about this life, or continuing life on the road again, I know that I’m ready for the next phase, but I don’t exactly know what that is and that seems to be your problem too. So, I’d say do some soul searching and see if you really want to move home and decide if it’s something you feel like you should do, or if it’s something that you really want to do because you’re ready to tough it until the boring life (and trust me it’s really boring) becomes something rewarding.
Anyhow, hand in there bro! There are a million paths for everyone, and I think you, and I have to find one to take to find the rewards that travel used to give us again.