Do you ever feel like bad weather follows you whenever you travel? Like when you’re booking your trip you look at the weather at wherever it is you’re going and it looks like (in theory) it’s supposed to be nice, but then when your trip actually rolls around the weather is predicted to be shit? Yeah, you’re not the only one.
Now I know traveling in the off season gets part of the blame for some of the shit weather I’ve experienced, but what else is to blame? Karma? Bad Luck? Global warming (that I realize I contribute to by hopping on a jet)? Is it just weather being weather?
Considering some of the weather I’ve experience on my travels, I believe it must be some combo of what I just listed. I mean yeah, when my keeper booked a trip to Las Vegas at the end of June, it’s not that I wasn’t expecting it to be hot, I just wasn’t prepared for the record setting, tarmac melting heat that we got. When we went to Venice for spring break, I wasn’t prepared to be blown away by the “potential disruption due to wind” that appeared in the weather every day it was opened. Disrupted my day was. When we ventured out to Mont Saint-Michel how could one possibly have prepared for the horrendous wind that rendered our umbrellas useless and made the rain come from the side instead of above?
Coming from a dry climate, I’ll be the first to admit that I am indeed hyper sensitive to a wet cold. It’s the kind that seeps down into your bones and refused to be chased of my anything – not a hot shower, not warm blankets, and certainly not a warm drink.
Where I come from, I know better than most just how unpredictable weather can be and just how quickly it can change. I’ve experienced what felt like all four seasons in a day. And I’ve experienced that more than once. And yet, on every trip I go on, I always experience some level of discomfort from the weather – whether it’s from my own stubbornness when packing or from the unpredictability of the weather – it always sucks when it happens.
BUT, all that being said, no matter how bad the weather is, when you’re traveling you just need to keep in mind that the shit weather does have one good purpose – that you’ll get one hell of a story out of it. Plus, you are traveling after all, so how miserable can you really be?