The Worst Excuses To Not Travel the World

Jo Muller
Digital Global Traveler
8 min readApr 2, 2023

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The most common fears that prevent people from traveling the world

Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Photo by author

Most excuses used by people to not travel the world are simple expressions of inner unjustified fears and reluctance to leave their own cuddly comfort zone.

It is obviously human to make our lives easier by blaming external reasons for our own inaction and fears.

I have personally always been a passionate traveller, but having only started to massively increase my traveling and world exploring, especially my solo traveling and long term trips, in the past few years, I cannot pretend to be better than anyone else, as only a few years ago, I used many of the following excuses myself to stay at home!

Every regular or passionate traveller has surely been confronted with the following questions by people back home: “how did you do it?” or “how could you afford it?” or surely the most common one “weren’t you scared, wasn’t it dangerous?”, etc etc!

At the end of the day, anyone can travel the world and do what you do/did, and it always comes down to the same lame excuses and fears that prevent people from exploring the world.

Today, I’m going to outline 6 most commonly used excuses to not travel the world, and how to outwit them.

  1. Traveling is dangerous, I don’t

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Jo Muller
Digital Global Traveler

Travel passionate and Life enthusiastic boy from Luxembourg, sharing experiences and guidelines from my travels and personal growth IG: jo.elviajero