To find travelling EXTREMELY exhausting all of a sudden?

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I'm only in my late thirties and can't believe how tiring and depleting I find travel now. Planes especially but all sorts of hauling luggage any distance and staying in unfamiliar places really. Don't get me wrong I really enjoy being away on holiday, but I am amazed how exhausted and achey I am now on return. I need a few days rest and quiet to recover - this can't be normal?

It makes me feel so filthy and dishevelled, traipsing through train stations or airports. I hate this aspect I can't seem to feel properly clean. I have no idea how on earth some women look so perfectly fresh and put together at the airport. I just look like complete shit.

I don't class myself as a fussy type of person but when staying away often I find the shower isn't as good as at home - crap water pressure or whatever.

I don't have children so it's not travel with children that's tiring me so much but I do have several autoimmune conditions. However, they never did this to me up until maybe 5 years ago.

My mum died a year ago and we lived abroad so there was a lot of stressful travelling involved with that and I honestly think I have changed since that.

Does anyone else find travelling extremely tiring and like it drains your strength? Am I just turning into a tired cranky woman?

Yeah I'm not big on travelling. I'm late 30s and I find the packing and the journey exhausting. I used to get excited about the airport but now it's such a chore.

I love the idea of travelling and going on an adventure but the reality doesn't always live up to the dream.

We do usually get away twice a year and once I'm there and settled in I enjoy myself.

Can I revive this thread?

I find the idea of travelling horrible nowadays. I'm mid thirties with a child.

I think there are a few reasons. There's age. Perhaps more than that, with the nature of my life now, there is a lot more admin involved in order to get away whether that's dog kennels, rescheduling deliveries etc. and also at work I really need to do loads more prep to get away. So by the time we're leaving I am already tired.

But also the travel itself has changed. There are way more people in the airport I think. More security measures. More flights. Staff more stressed. Can't remember the last time I was on a flight with empty seats but that used to be normal.

Last abroad trip we did we took the train. Technically it took longer but we felt less like cattle and it was so much better!