.. the Bad

Missing my family, my friends, my house and all those material possessions that I'm supposed to be immune to when travelling, being ill with unknown foreign virus and/or bacteria and having no hope in hell of receiving medical care to the standard of home, spending 90% of travelling when meeting people with your right arm stuck out to shake hands with innumerable strangers and your general spiel at the ready; "hi, this is my name, this is where I'm from, this is where I've travelled, this is how long I've travelled for and this is where I'm going next and how are you??" and in the process on the receiving end of "well I've been here, here, here and here and had this great experience and this awful experience and I am a totally cool traveller and so much better than you until you prove your experiences to be at least as good as mine" usually by people who don't know their arse from their elbow and should really not have been let out of their home country in the first place (!), getting totally, totally ripped off by locals convinced that cos you are western you are therefore rolling in money (ha I wish!), wishing I'd done it all earlier, trying to go out somewhere random (usually in Asia) and failing to get either a decent meal or meals that arrive together, tummy bugs that are inescapable when travelling, other poeple that drive you nuts but you're stuck with them out of politeness or for nothing better available (I'm not really that horrible honest!!) and the boredom of waiting... for buses, planes, trains, automobiles or yer dinner!