I'm a Travel Addict. I also have co-dependent husband who only serves to feed my addiction.
We're forever caught in a cycle of coming and going: half our lives go into planning our next holiday and the other half working hard so we can spend most of our earnings paying for what increasingly seems like a "too-short" trip.
We keep saying we'll try to hold back--and then another part of the world beckons us, and we just have to go!
I wonder if there is a TAA with a 12 step program where I can go and say: "Hi, I'm Ranee and I'm a travel addict..."
Ranee Kaur Banerjee's Full profile
Hometown
Calcutta, WB, India
Location now
Calcutta, WB, India
Work published
My body of published work includes academic essays on literary criticism, book reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry and children’s fiction.
Travel philosophy
Everytime I go somewhere new, I find something new about myself.
Craziest place
I can't think of places as "crazy"--as far as I'm concerned that tag belongs to travellers who want to carry their foods, their ways, their lives with them to places they think of as "exotic." Why would they want to travel? Isn't National Geographic what they really want?
Bizarre experience
Attending the wedding of 2 American converts to Sikhism (Sikhism is an Indian religion) in a Gurdwara (Sikh Temple--) on S Hairston Street in Atlanta, Georgia
Advice
Leave comfort zones back home along with all your extra baggage of opinions, prejudices and conditioned responses.
Dream destination
The dream changes every few minutes
Traveled before
All continents except South America and Antartica
Going next
Machu-Pichu or Bora Bora in Summer 2008; the Gorumara Forest in North Bengal for a long weekend along with a Darjeeling Tea Garden for about a week in October 2007 and maybe a couple of days at the Sunderbans next weekend
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- Sep 14, 2007 - India
Finally, our bags are packed amidst much screaming and “helping” by the children. We double-check the taps, unplug everything, switch ......
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