"Travel makes us wiser, but less happy."
--Benjamin Franklin

If you sometimes feel depressed in the period following a long trip, you are not alone. This is a very common experience, as Ben Franklin mused. Just blow it off (i.e., don't worry about it). It wears off.

If you've been a good boy and put on your helmut, you may not catch any STDs but you have a high chance of catching a case of PTD : Post Trip depression

Tough guys here have said they get the blues. Guys with girlfriends at home have called leaving xxxland the saddest day of his life. Yes, it is true. Over there you wake up everyday ALIVE. You eat great food for $2 and you go hunt for girls. Everyday is new. You feel like a king. You come back home, you wake up and go to work. It's the same old thing everyday in day out. You come back home and watch TV and you read Clubhombre and someone else is having a great time. Your honey is far away from you. You spend $5 on food that makes you fat. You masterbate(yes you do).

Unless you are xxxGringo or Sxxman-who both go on another trip right after coming back, you have a high probablity of suffering from PTD.

I better go on a trip soon...

-DJ

Nothing but truth in your comments DJ.

Damn DJ.

I'm back from Rio for a whole week now without going anywhere yet. Give me a break here.

I don't have any trips planned until Nov. then again in Dec. for a 40th birthday bash in Rio at a VIPS festa

And I still get PTD about 5 minutes after getting on the plane.

It's like a reformed alcoholic friend of mine once told me. If he walked into a bar where they offered all you could drink for $1, he would ask for $2 worth.

Sxxxman

PTD? How sad.

I think I'm gonna go rub out a quick one now to see if I feel any better.

Costricardo you are too kind.

The Sxxxmaster gets the blues? For 5 mins a month..

Gringas rofl.

So real, i suffer atleast a week or 2 after a trip!

I can't get off the airport property before it hits me! Then the long drive back home....merely to comtemplate the next trip!

Oh yea, I start becoming depressed a few days before I even depart XXXland. I look at my dwindling stack of $20s...then sadly admit I have to return back to reality where I can earn another stack...oh well, maybe in another year?

I've even nearly been brought to tears upon rotation and wheels up...that final "krrrlunk"...takeoff is one of the saddest sounds I know. As I fly-out over the city, I look down as if I am looking over a smoking battlefield, and I wonder...could I have done more? Are any of my "guys" still alive and struggling to survive? And if they are, do they feel I've abandoned them?

Memo to my underwear Army...my "guys"...my "special men"...I swear...I shall return!

AJ

PS - All you have left is hope.