{"id":2030,"date":"2010-07-10T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roundworldtravels.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-07-10T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T16:08:37","slug":"from-homebody-to-travel-writer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/from-homebody-to-travel-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"From Homebody to Travel Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Round World Travels\u00a0and advance through the Ranks to Travel Writer.\u00a0 All New Community Members start with 0\u00a0points and the Rank Homebody.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want to be a Homebody do you?\u00a0 Of course not!\u00a0 Simply interact with other members on the site, participate in forum discussions, upload photos, submit a guest post, comment on others post.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to earn points!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/travel-1749508_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/travel-1749508_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"817\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>Ranks (based on RTWA points)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Homebody (0-150) :<\/strong> You lazy piece of crap.\u00a0 Seriously, get off your butt and get motivated.\u00a0 Here is a great quote from Mark Twain to get you moving.\u00a0 &#8211;<em>\u201cTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn&#8217;t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Tourist (151-345) :<\/strong> OK, good, this means we got your blood pumping.\u00a0 Your thinking I can do this and you have the dream caught in your sails.\u00a0 You sit at the computer and surf far off places, your imagination takes you there and it&#8217;s these very dreams that will become your goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backyard Adventurer (346-540) :<\/strong> Well at least you made it out of the house right.\u00a0 What?.., your camping out tonight?\u00a0 OK, don&#8217;t worry, we will leave the backdoor open with the light on so you can come in and use the bathroom if you have to.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day Tripper (541-1125) :<\/strong> Grab the Daypack, were heading out on the trail for some serious adventure.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell anyone that the only thing your carrying in that bag is a candy bar and a bottle of water.\u00a0 Seriously, look around, you are not getting lost, isn&#8217;t that the highway over there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vacationer (1126-2100) :<\/strong> Heck, its time for vacation and you&#8217;ve earned it.\u00a0 There are two types of vacations I&#8217;ve learned.\u00a0 The first type is the one where you sit around all day at a pool or beach and do practically nothing.\u00a0 Sometimes you just need this type of vacation.\u00a0 The second type is the one where you have to get out and go, go, go because of where you are.\u00a0 You have to see the sites and visit said places and there&#8217;s only so much time to do it in.\u00a0 If you stay in your hotel on this type of vacation people will call you lame.\u00a0 You&#8217;re still on the first type so relax, you graduate to Tourist next time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tourist (2101-3075) :<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Oh Ellen, the old west was dirty. Everything isn&#8217;t like home. If everything were like home, there would be no reason for leaving home. Right, Rusty?<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Congratulations, you&#8217;ve become a regular Clark Griswold!\u00a0 You have the car packed, you have the map, you have the hunger for a good old fashion road trip with some serious sightseeing.\u00a0 Now you just have to find these places!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trail Blazer (3076-4050) :<\/strong> You&#8217;ve been to all the tourist areas, &#8220;hey, isn&#8217;t this your second time here?&#8221;\u00a0 Yup, its getting old and your getting courageous.\u00a0 You&#8217;re off the beaten path of other would be tourist and your creating your own sites of interest.\u00a0 Still, despite your bravery your still being governed by society and your 9-5 job on most days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hobby Hobo<\/strong> <strong>(4051-5025) : <\/strong>People at work have started calling you a weekend hobo.\u00a0 What the heck you&#8217;re crazy, jumping trains and spending the night in hobo jungles.\u00a0 Despite your adventurous side you still return to work on Monday clean and showered but thinking, &#8220;I wonder if I just didn&#8217;t come back, just quit this rat race and kept going, there would still be another tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vagrant Tramp (5026-6000) :<\/strong> Wow, what happen?\u00a0 At one time people called you a freaking Trail Blazer and suddenly you&#8217;re a tramp, a drifter, a floater, a wanderer and a lot of other derelict connotations. \u00a0 That&#8217;s OK though, you did it!\u00a0 You left the daily grind imprisoning you and chose freedom.\u00a0 You just jumped a little early because you still ain&#8217;t earning the type of bread it takes to survive and just travel freely but that&#8217;s OK you&#8217;re resourceful right&#8230;.right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vagabond (6001-6975)<\/strong> <strong>:<\/strong> You were a real nuisance for a while there, kind of smelly too.\u00a0 Come to think of it you were almost an affliction upon society.\u00a0 The good thing is somehow you escaped the stereotype of being a no good vagrant beggar and graduated into a resourceful carefree roamer.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve picked up some street smarts along with some dryer sheets for your shoes&#8230;yikes!\u00a0 You still are somewhat shifty in the eyes of others but people don&#8217;t know weather to admire you or call the cops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hobo (6976-7950) :<\/strong> Independent and free, resourceful and self reliant, you&#8217;ve come to be very appreciative of the opportunity that surrounds you.\u00a0 When a job becomes available you take it but only if\u00a0 it don&#8217;t have a long term commitment.\u00a0 After all, lets face it, when its time to go you&#8217;re going.\u00a0 You travel to travel and only pick up work to keep you going.\u00a0 You live by a secret code, a culture and a language only known by you and your fellow brethren.\u00a0 When people ask you, &#8220;whats the difference between a Hobo and a Vagabond?&#8221; your reply is always the same.\u00a0 &#8220;Vagabonds smell like roses while hobos smell like lilacs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Globe Trotter (7951-8925)<\/strong> :\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been to a whole lot of places and people know you as the story teller.\u00a0 You have stories from every part of the globe and people are fascinated.\u00a0 Still, people have not bought into your existence and there is a element of caution they use when around you.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t know where your making your money exactly and suspect something shady.\u00a0 Instead of giving you a name like World Traveler or Adventurer they still want to label you with a certain amount of disrespect.\u00a0 I mean, Globe Trotter isn&#8217;t necessarily bad but its kind of silly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explorer (8926-9900) :<\/strong> OK, watch out Amelia Earhart because not even Christopher Columbus shows up on this radar.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not just traveling, your discovering new places and someone is going to have to edit a map or two when your done.\u00a0 You&#8217;re serious about travel and you treat it like it&#8217;s your job.\u00a0 You&#8217;re name is starting to show up in print and that&#8217;s not a bad thing like it was that one night when the cops&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Traveler (9901-10875) : <\/strong>Wow, you did it!\u00a0 People don&#8217;t refer to you as a drifter, a nomad, a hobo, a lost soul or even a globe-trotter.\u00a0 They say, &#8220;oh yeah, I know so and so, they&#8217;ve been all over.\u00a0 Very worldly, I wish I could just travel all over the world like that.&#8221;\u00a0 You know the foods, the people, the culture and even the language.\u00a0 Your a vast source of information just waiting leave your pen.\u00a0 Its time to write.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travel Writer (10876-11850) :<\/strong> You&#8217;ve been traveling and you&#8217;ve been writing.\u00a0 What do you know, you&#8217;ve been a travel writer all along.\u00a0 By this point in our program you should be doing well enough that when people ask, &#8220;What do you do for a living?&#8221;\u00a0 You can reply, &#8220;I&#8217;m a Travel Writer.&#8221;\u00a0 Happy Travels \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Note:\u00a0 Although we did actually employ a mathematical formula to arrive at these conclusions there are a lot of variables and we aren&#8217;t that good at math, we like traveling.\u00a0 This is meant to be a fun game to engage our writers.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t hold us accountable if you&#8217;re still camping out in your backyard and you achieved Travel Writer&#8230;.you just cheated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Round World Travels\u00a0and advance through the Ranks to Travel Writer.\u00a0 All New Community Members start with 0\u00a0points and the Rank Homebody.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want to be a Homebody do you?\u00a0 Of course not!\u00a0 Simply interact with other members on the site, participate in forum discussions, upload photos, submit a guest post, comment on others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17727,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nourishingtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}