10.13.25: Travel Fatigue

There’s a point in long-term travel where airports stop feeling exciting. They’re just checkpoints. Same overpriced sandwiches, same announcement tone, same fluorescent purgatory. You stop noticing where you are and focus on how far you are from where you want to be. But then, once in a while, something snaps you back. A random sunset through the glass, a kid dragging a stuffed animal bigger than themselves, a stranger offering you gum before a flight. Those little human moments remind you why you travel in the first place. It’s not about airports. It’s about what waits outside them.