I travel roughly 200 days a year so I am pretty much used to being on the road. Hotels, restaurants, traffic jams and flight delays are pretty much par for the course and to be quite honest it really doesn't bother me that much. I used to have a job where I travelled internationally (once a quarter to China and once a year to Europe) and if we ever HERF together I have some travel horror stories that I can share. Typhoons, hail storms, and ice storms can all cause some terrible flight delays and I can tell you some hotel and restaurant stories from China that will curl your hair. That being said, traffic jams, flight delays, bad restaurant food and poor service in hotels in the US are mild by comparison.
What I generally say about traveling is that after I am gone for a week or so my wife will say "when are you going to be home?" And after I am home for a week she will say "when are you going to be traveling again?"
The best thing about having a job where I travel is that it gives me the chance to get together with other BOTLs wherever I go. Over the past year I have probably met and smoked with a minimum of 50 people from this forum. Without my job I never would have had that opportunity. That benefit in and of itself makes it all worthwhile.
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