Is Travelling good for Aspies?

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When I was young, travelling to relatives' houses was stressful because my parents were nervous drivers and we had rough relationships with our extended family. Yet, we were expected to feel at home and sleep in different arrangements in a house situation. "Just go to sleep" doesn't work when your routine is changed.
We make a point to refer to hotel sleeping (and bathing, eating) as unusual and an event in itself. I think that's why my son likes it so much.

I love traveling whenever i travel it always boosts my confidence as i tend 2 enjoy it more den goin 2 my local town.

Ya, having a failed plan sucks. WHen I drove outa state over the summer I got lost a few times in the very dense city's I was trying to navigate, traffic was auful and I had a hard time reading the map while driving in certain areas. Being lost is the worst thing in my book, I can deal with everything else tho.

Not for this one. I personally can barely stand other cultures. Especially those that want to kill me because of my beliefs or where I was born. But I have no choice. I will leave America one day.

I've been traveling since I was in the womb, and as soon as my feet touch a walkway between the plane and the airport, I'm in heaven. Nothing compares to being in the clouds. Turbulence wasn't exactly a dream, but it's only happened to me once. When I'm traveling, most of my worries are back at home, so it's the only time when I'm completely relaxed. By the way, carefree Pol = total weirdo. I'm never embarrassed because I'm too happy to care.

Nothing compares to being in the clouds until a terrorist with boxcutters hijacks your plane and flys it into a building. Have fun on your next trip.

I kind of pity the terrorist who tries to take my life after everything I'm going through to attain some kind of normality again. After thousands and thousands of dollars from my own money spent on medical bills thanks to an idiotic chick who couldn't figure out that speeding during a tropical storm might not have been the best of ideas, and spending my saturdays in clinics surrounded by old people, I got a looooooooooooooooot of pent up rage. I have enough control that I wouldn't take it out on any innocent bystander, or your everyday jerk. But, if a terrorist feels that determined to end his/her life, I have no qualms fulfilling at least one of those requests.

I really love travelling if I have my way I would walk out my front door and go to an airport right now given the chance.

Why do you tempt me so?

Theres nothing better than being able to let your brain take you off on a hyperfocal whim.
If you're thumbing solo across a foreign country without destination or deadline there is less need to conform to any conventions other than those which prevent you getting arrested. I can choose my company and my timing whilst wandering and i can learn so much from the variety of situations into which i stumble

On the other hand, I find travelling with a partner to be incredibly stressful.

Now i just have to deal with the guilt for the environmental consequences of circumnavigating the globe several times.

I like traveling. If I could do it at my own pace and money was no object, I'd love to do it full time.

As it is though, I'm pretty happy traveling to my mama's up in Tennessee once a year. We go up and spend 4 days with mama and see our cousins that live there, then we come back. It costs me about $200 in food and gas round trip. I'm not a big fan of the actual travel though, I don't like being confined in a vehicle for long periods. If I had a bus or RV where I could walk around that might not be so bad.

In fact I was thinking of buying an RV and living out of it. That way I take home with me. That's an odd dream of mine.

It's pretty hard for me to even leave the house sometimes, but traveling is possible if I'm HEAVILY sedated. It doesn't make me tired, just evens me out to a normal level. I'm naturally EXTREMELY anxious, even as I sit here and type I can't breathe.

yes! Travel as much as possible. My most recent trip was 2 weeks to Israel alone. I had never been outisde ths U.S. so this was a new experience. I just roughed it and dealt with it

I've travelled the world alone, and now live in a country on totally the opposite side of the world where I'm from.

I love travelling so much - nothing like waking up in a strange place, a new city to explore, the sights and smells and sounds and tastes and languages and ohhhh... it's heaven.

Travelling is the best thing I've ever done in my life. I've grown so much, I couldn't recommend anything more highly.

"is traveling good for aspies?" of course

This has been an ongoing problem for me. There are many places I'd like to travel to, but I don't do very well away from home. I become very anxious, disoriented, and impulsive. Being without my cat is also very challenging. I have a very difficult time sleeping in a hotel bed or anyplace other than my own bed really. I don't know how much this has to do with travel, though. I feel the same way anytime my daily routine is disturbed.