I am 18 and have been away from home 1 month 2 weeks of those where with my mum and I’ve been now traveling with my close friend for 2 weeks. I feel completely homesick. The thoughts are all consuming and I just want to be at home. I know if I fly home to Australia it’s not likely I’ll make it back over here any time soon as the flights are so expensive. I’m stuck. When is it time to go home and when do you have to tough it out?

Maybe I’m not the type of person who deals with being away for along time. I don’t want to feel like a failure but I do want to go home. Part of me knows that if I go home I’ll be disappointed but the other part knows that I will be happy and I won’t have this terrible feeling anymore of homesickness.

It’s so confusing. But this artical told me if I do decide to go home – that I’m not a failure and I’ve had good times that have shaped me – and I’ll come back one day and complete what I have started.

I’m about to be 4 months into the trip. For me juggling the idea of going home now, isn’t about not loving long-term travel. It’s about realizing I loved what I was doing home and I went to chase one dream and realized I was already living my dream at home.

Thanks for this post.

Lisa, I know I am 3 years late but I just stumbled upon this article because I was having the same feelings.
Literally the exact situation you were in, almost 3 months in and I’m starting to notice I get very irritable and frustrated a lot faster than I normally do. I realize that may be a result in me not enjoying long term travel. Don’t get me wrong ILOVE travel but this trip has made me realize I love the short term travel I plan a couple times a year back home.
I liked and miss my routine I had at home and though I have done some great things here in Australia (trust me many more on my list) but getting low on money has been dragging on me as well as all I can think about it going home to my room, my bed, my belongings. I don’t like living out of a suitcase or hostels or not having mostly everything planned. I’m a creature of habit and I do miss that about myself.

Any chance you found this and let me know what decision you made and how you got to that decision? Thank you!

Thank you for this article. Thank you for saying what some don’t. Thank you for reminding people that it doesn’t matter what people think, as long as it is the right choice for you.

THANK YOU! I needed this post. In April i was in Australia and was only sad and “homesick” on the day i was supposed to go home because my plane was delayed by a day. However i am abroad and your post made me realise that whatever decision I make – well that’s okay, because i have nothing to prove to anyone.

Im new to your blogs and this is the first of many. xx

I got to Australia from the UK 6 weeks ago and I am incredibly homesick! I have planned to be away for 12 months and thought I would absolutely love it.

I met a boyfriend a few months before I set off and he has been incredibly supportive, however, I can’t help thinking it would all be better with him here. I feel it would have been different if I hadn’t met him and I probably wouldn’t have gone home but now all I think about is going home and having routine and my family.

I also had to send a big chunk of my savings home after already not budgeting very well with what I had and now half my savings are gone and I haven’t even done anything exciting yet!

I’m really at a cross roads of whether to push ahead and see if it changes or to realise that I can’t just be having a bad day every single day of my trip.

I am currently working for accommodation at a hostel on the Sunshine Coast, it’s the first time I have stayed in a hostel. Maybe I should go somewhere else or organise a trip to meet other people?

Ahh!! Scared of failing and ending up depressed at home.