Itchy Feet Between Trips

[erkpod]

When do your feet start to get itchy after a trip? Obviously everyone's answers will be different & will depend on how often you travel & why you travel.


Or do you travel/fly that often that you don't have time between flights/trips to miss travel?

 

[Rallo]

As soon as I get home it drives the wife nuts

 

[LadyC]

As I only travel for leisure, I love thinking about and planning holidays. I normally have 2 or 3 holidays planned out - not that I get to or can afford to go on all of them

 

[bass_ke]

It used to be a couple of months, then a couple of weeks and other last weeks run to AKL I had itchy feet in about a day.

I too love always having a trip in the planning phase at all times!

 

[Milboo]

Massively itchy feet!

My next leisure trip overseas is in 2 weeks but I am already starting to look into next year's trip as well as a trip back to NZ. Current trip was booked within days of coming back from Europe in June!

 

[erkpod]

As for me, I'm a leisure traveler also. I did one epic 2 month trip to the US at the start of the year & when I got back, I probably didn't feel the need to travel for another couple of months. I have done several short sectors along with a MEL - DRW - MEL day trip this year & the itchy feet period after these shorter trips is also shorter.

I have been severely counting down for my next confirmed trip which is back to the US departing 1/1 & returning at the end of February via Japan & Singapore (a week each).

It also depends on how many times I have to drive a train down the Sydney airport line tunnels on a shift.

 

[jetlagger]

Every other day for me..

 

[horseman]

It's gotta be 12 months since my last trip. The one I'm about to leave on was booked in last year. Itchy as he'll!

 

[drron]

Fortunately travel has still kept it's appeal so if not travelling or working we are planning future trips.
We decide where we would like to go.i then find the best value longest way to get there,find flights and book hotels then mrsdrron researches the destination seeing what we would like to do.
Basically we know what we are doing through to the end of 2015.Those for 2014 are already booked.
So really we don't get itchy feet.

 

[Rallo]

Fortunately travel has still kept it's appeal so if not travelling or working we are planning future trips.
We decide where we would like to go.i then find the best value longest way to get there,find flights and book hotels then mrsdrron researches the destination seeing what we would like to do.
Basically we know what we are doing through to the end of 2015.Those for 2014 are already booked.
So really we don't get itchy feet.

drron how far out do you book your flights?

 

[Melburnian1]

drron, you make some interesting and lengthy trips so you are representative of the mature age demographic with (dare I say it) some spare cash and time.

However increasing from what travel agents tell me, Australians are booking their overseas trips closer to the date of departure: four to eight weeks before is apparently more common than a few years ago.

This may not be good for airlines as it makes it a bit harder to know whether flights will fill. Of course if airlines partly rely on history, it may not always mean that fares decrease.

 

[kpc]

As soon as the jetlag resolves...I start to plan my trips about 18 months out so I can get award flights in J, in partic. for +1.

For the next 12 months, I have booked and paid for trips to Hong Kong (Dec), US (West Coast) (Jan), Maldives (Feb / Mar), Puerto Rico / Cuba (Apr / May), Malaysia / Singapore (July), Queenstown (Aug), and Russia (Sept)...this should prevent itchy feet BUT it will create a HUGE dent in my bank account balance.

To my +1s shock and horror, I'm thinking about Dublin in April 2015!!

I think drron and I are a bit like minded with our forward planning!

 

[Hvr]

My first thought when reading the title was that you had tinea. :mrgreen:

I've got my major trip for 2014 worked out, i.e. booked and paid for (on line JASA , but haven't really thought about 2015 yet.

 

[drron]

drron, you make some interesting and lengthy trips so you are representative of the mature age demographic with (dare I say it) some spare cash and time.

However increasing from what travel agents tell me, Australians are booking their overseas trips closer to the date of departure: four to eight weeks before is apparently more common than a few years ago.

This may not be good for airlines as it makes it a bit harder to know whether flights will fill. Of course if airlines partly rely on history, it may not always mean that fares decrease.

The secret to our travel is that I can still work.I retired from my practice 7 years ago as I was virtually burnt out and wasn't enjoying it.
I now do locums so far across 4 states.Not having to worry about administration and red tape means I very quickly came to enjoy my job again.The longer I have been doing these locums the more I enjoy it.Particularly enjoyable is meeting and teaching the younger doctors and students that are doing rural terms.

It is the money I earn from locums that finances our travel.Obviously every year brings us closer to the time I can no longer do this so we are really doing all the unusual places on our wish lists.

Yes we have always booked a long way out.The reason now is that our paid flights are usually a J Circle Pacific fare to which we add on AA Aawards.As we want to have F awards at sAAver rates you have to book as the date opens up to be sure of getting 2 awards.Though for our September 2014 trip to Japan we have our J MASAs.Soon it will be time to book our December 2014 to Myanmar trip.

2015 sees us travel to Murmansk and Archangel.Later it is Cuba and the Panama Canal.

 

[DrA]

Normally get itchy feet the next day.

I always look forward to getting home and sleeping in my own bed. But the next day I wake up and remember how much I hate living in Perth and want to fly away again. I know I could leave, and that is my intention, but right now a job is a job.

 

[JessicaTam]

As soon as the plane touches down, I want to take off again. I don't like walking out of the airport.

 

[JohnK]

Hardly ever. I am always on the go.

Overseas trips

December 2013-January 2014 (booked and raring to go)
February 2014-March2014 (flights booked, accommodation still to be booked)
May 2014-June 2014 (flights booked, accommodation still to be booked)
November 2014 (waiting for award flights to be released)
February 2015 (planning stages)

Unallocated trips

April 2014
August 2014

 

[erkpod]

My first thought when reading the title was that you had tinea. :mrgreen:

Someone had to go there!

 

[serfty]

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However increasing from what travel agents tell me, Australians are booking their overseas trips closer to the date of departure: four to eight weeks before is apparently more common than a few years ago.

This may not be good for airlines as it makes it a bit harder to know whether flights will fill. Of course if airlines partly rely on history, it may not always mean that fares decrease.

Those pointy end rewards to be booked as JSAS/FASA or even classics don't hang around - I am typically booking my longhaul flights in premium award classes when they become available 11+ months out. In a month I will be looking at travel over the new year.

I get itchy feet between the long hauls - transpacific or trans eurasia. Last was in June and my next is in January.

Those piddly little Oz Domestic shorthaul flights of two hours or less don't help at all - after maybe 700+ of these the gloss wore off over a decade ago.

(Don't get me wrong - back in '94 I thought it was the antz pantz having 8 MEL/SYD trips in 4 weeks.)

 

[JessicaTam]

Someone had to go there!

Well I thought it too, but didn't like to say anything...