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Travel

The end of mobility?

One of the questions I have been thinking about for the past couple of weeks is whether or not the lifestyle that I had envisioned for my life and the life of my family will still be possible in the near future.

Four years ago when the seeds of thought for this web site were being planted I was traveling every month. Traveling not so much for work but for a change of scenery for my work. I thought that over time I could see myself working during the winter in various parts of Thailand or other warm locales in Asia. Summer would be spent in Eastern Canada and perhaps parts of Europe. Since starting a family living this ideal has been somewhat more challenging, and now my mobile lifestyle is confined primarily between Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the all to rare trip to Bangkok.

But this challenge pales in comparison to the unavoidable increase in costs of mobility.

Lately with fantastic increases in the price of fuel, and certainly much more increases in the future, living a mobile lifestyle will not mean trotting around the world with laptop in tow but simply moving around the house. The costs of air travel are increasing to the point that even now we are canceling trips abroad. The days of cheap plentiful air-fare are coming to an end making all travel - luxury travel.

There are bigger problems to contend with with the rising cost of fuel, problems like heating a home in winter, but I can't help but feel saddened by the prospect of not experiencing as much of the world as I had hoped.

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