28. Travel Tips

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

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🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How have I not yet tackled the topic of travel? I looove to explore new places, and in today's episode, I share my top 11 HSP travel tips from 35+ countries of experience.

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AirBnb for renting apartments (free $25 credit)

Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely.
0:11.3	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:17.5	Welcome to episode 28. I'm your host, Kelly.
0:21.6	In this podcast, I talk about my experience of being a highly sensitive and introverted person.
0:26.6	Sometimes I rant and complain, sometimes I give helpful tips, and today's going to be one of those helpful days, hopefully.
0:33.6	When I was trying to decide what topic to talk about this week, I couldn't believe that I haven't
0:39.0	yet talked about travel. People who know me well are sometimes surprised that I travel as much as I do.
0:46.2	For all of 2013, my husband Jim and I traveled and lived around the world. We rented out our house,
0:51.2	sold the car, quit our jobs, and ran a small online business on the
0:54.5	road.
0:55.5	We've always traveled cheaply.
0:57.5	However, as I get older, I definitely have less tolerance for bare bones travel.
1:02.5	I used to love hostels and the excitement of backpacking and the bragging rights, of
1:07.0	being sort of hardcore, but I'm totally over that now.
1:15.6	Anyway, since little things tend to bother me more than the average person as an HSP,
1:20.3	you'd think independent travel would be more difficult than it is for non-sensitive people.
1:22.6	And it probably is.
1:28.9	So here are my top 11 highly sensitive person travel tips for budget travelers.
1:30.9	All right, number one.
1:37.6	Make sure you have what I call the HSP Travel Survival Kit, eyeshades, earplugs, sunglasses, and a hat.
1:39.1	An HSP traveling without earplugs is just crazy.
1:42.4	Personally, I don't think you can complain about a baby crying on an
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