Date a girl who travels, or don’t; she doesn’t really care

Date a girl who travels, or don’t; she doesn’t really care one way or the other.

It’s true. You can argue whether to date her or not, but by the time you make your decision, she has already moved on. It is this short attention span that makes her retie the boots that just came off her feet and repack her bags that were only empty long enough for her underwear to come out of the wash.

She doesn’t need your validation because, for a girl who travels, there is nothing more validating than reaching into her well-packed bag and pulling out exactly what she needs for any given situation, except for maybe being able to help someone else who who didn't think to bring a two headlamps, a handful of cough drops, Velcro straps, or a tube of super glue. 

She will certainly be more concerned with how many pockets and pouches and zippers and gear loops she has on her backpack and jacket than with whether you want to date her or not. Her rule is: the more pouches/pockets/zippers/buckles/straps the better prepared she will be; so she might even be too busy customizing her rain jacket, hand-sewing slack lines onto it that can be taken off and used as clotheslines/compression straps/tourniquets/etc to notice if you are in the process of wooing her or not.

She is enchanted by languages, so date her or not, she will always have someone else to talk to because there is a whole wide world out there ready to share their culture, their passions, their story with her in every language that she is studying at the moment. And believe me, it is always more than one, so she doesn’t care if you have time for her or not because she’s busy reading four different Harry Potter books in four different languages.

She doesn’t care if your want to date her because she loves being around strangers in new places, but she is also confident enough to keep herself company.

If she has a family like mine, she will always miss them more than you when she is away, so if you are dating her or not, they will always get the priority “first hug” when she finally gets out of the customs line at the airport.

She is probably going to be busy trying to see all the fish in all the seas to be worried about dating them. She doesn’t take vacations, she makes voyages, and whether you are with her or not, she is still going to retie those laces (there are probably two sets on each shoe because she knows about 18 uses for a shoe laces), repack the clean underwear (probably no lace there because she would rather pay $15 for a pair of travel undies than for lacy ones), and she will be gone yet again.

So date her or don’t, she is a girl who travels, and she really don’t care.

For the honor and glory.