30 Beautiful Words that Perfectly Capture Those Travel Feels

Calm your schwellenangst down.
by Leigh Bagtas | August 28, 2015

Traveling and feelings are joined at the hip. They go together and can’t be separated.

Sometimes, we don’t have the right words to describe those feelings. Now, why call yourself a traveler if you can’t amass the words for those feelings from languages around the world?

Here are 30 of them feels:

the restless race of a traveler’s heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together; a “travel fever” that can manifest as an illness

 

an ache for distant places; the craving for travel

 

an intense and irresistible desire for freedom

 

leaving; departure

 

a fear or dislike of one’s own home

 

an unpredictable instance, a wandering journey; a whimsical, wild or unusual idea, desire or action

 

fear of embarking on something new; fear of crossing a threshold

 

a spontaneous journey where the traveler leaves their life behind for a time to let the spirit of the landscape and architecture attract and move them

 

wandering alone

 

moving from place to place without a fixed home

 

having a tendency to wander

 

one who loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme

 

the freedom of not being watched by a parent or superior; being alone at a place and having the ability to do what you want

 

briefly, quickly, immediately

 

unfamiliar, rare, strange and yet marvelous

 

moving or happening in every direction instantaneously

 

the pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”

 

something lovely discovered by chance; a windfall

 

to be charmed or smitten

 

beautiful thinking; a well mind

 

living in the moment, detached from the borders of life

 

to stir, to touch or to move to tears

 

describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted; a powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired

 

to reflect or meditate on your own

 

the peculiar stress of speaking a foreign language

 

a contented state of being happy, healthy and prosperous

 

desiring or seeking powerful change in one’s life, behavior or situation

 

an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words

 

a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one’s home

 

a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant or that has been loved then lost; “the love that remains”

Know of others? Post them in the comments!