Know when it’s time to head home

The three-by-three model discussed in Chapter 4 guides the travel journalist through the process of traveling. Included in the process is the preparation to travel, the reporting trip, then writing and publishing. Matador Network author, Spencer Klein, offers advice to readers on the exact opposite: how to know when it’s time to stop traveling and go home.

When the existential satisfaction of open time and nothingness and learning for learning’s sake gives way to distant thoughts and a yearning for routine, that’s a good sign you want to head home.

Some of Klein’s eight signs it’s time to stop traveling and go home include:

You are rationing salted peanuts, you’ve just sold your pocket knife, and last but certainly not least: you’ve agreed to write a copy for the BuenaVista Condo Development marketing brochure.