13 Reasons Why It's Worth Traveling 4,590 Miles Total Just To See My Family, Friends, And Dogs For A Weekend
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13 Reasons Why It's Worth Traveling 4,590 Miles Total Just To See My Family, Friends, And Dogs For A Weekend

There's nothing like quality time with the fam when you come home from college.

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13 Reasons Why It's Worth Traveling 4,590 Miles Total Just To See My Family, Friends, And Dogs For A Weekend
Amanda West

Hey Readers.

As those of you who follow me on any-- and I mean any-- of my social media (if you don't... Def check out my sosh feeds below and do so, um, immediately), you know that I adore my high school/childhood friends, family, and dogs like no other! The only downside with having such close relationships with these awesome people in my life is that I have to travel 2,295 miles there and back-- a whopping total of 4,590 miles-- just to see their smiling faces!!!! 😬😅🙃


Ugh. I know, right?! Traveling 6+ hours on a stuffy overpriced economy class plane ride just so I can lose that amount of time-- plus three hours (because of the time change)-- of my day just to go back to dusty DC? And then do it again almost always less than two weeks later going back to LA (The Most Fabulous Place on Earth)? Puh-leaseeeee 🙄


The struggle is always worth it, though, because of the following 13 things that you get to do when you come home after several months living off of Franzia, dried fruit, and popcorn in a room the size of your former closet:

1. Take a bath

You never knew LUSH bath bombs were life until you started craving baths while you showered in lukewarm water in flip flops for the past 4 months...

2. Snuggle with your dogs

SO. FLUFFY.

3. Not wear earplugs when you sleep.

Because there aren't loud any loud high frat boys blasting Fetty Wap throughout your living area at 3 AM when you're at home! 🤗

4. Cook your own healthy, delicious food

Instead of *trying* to eat the disgusting, barely edible cafeteria food. And, when you're at home, you don't have to suffer and starve like you do in college as a result of the nasty dorm food!

5. Hang out with your siblings, and your childhood/high school best friends, who you can be really weird around


Ok, fine, I can be my fully weird self around my best friends at college, but there are just some things you can only do with your siblings and your friends who have known you so long that they might as well be your siblings.

6. Walk around barefoot

In your dorm, you constantly have to wear shoes when you walk to eat, go to the bathroom, or sometimes, if it's really gross at that time, your room. Not the case at home. Not the case.... 😃

7. Have your own bed

Not the one that at least 30 people used before you. You know at least that many people used your dorm bed before you, because of the funky stains on the mattress.

8. Keep your toiletries in the bathroom

For girls with long hair and a pretty intense beauty regimen like mine, your shower caddy straight up overflows and things start falling out like crazy every time you walk down the hall to the dorm bathroom.

9. Inhale at any given moment and smell something nice

Rather than walking down the dorm hall only to smell dirty clothes, bad weed, rotting food, and, if you're lucky, puke!!! 😷

10. Use soft toilet paper

Instead of that white sandpaper that they so graciously provide in the dorm bathrooms.

11. Drive to your best friends' houses to see them

There's nothing like driving to your home BFFs' houses that are 5-10 minutes away and then having a night out on the town, going to a lit party, or even just having a GNO instead of having to FaceTime them at time zone-friendly hours crying about how you wish all of squad went to the same college!

12. Have a quiet space

Sometimes you need to escape the noise and craziness of college and all its parties and fun times, but your dorm room is never guaranteed to be empty! One of the best things about being home is being able to meditate or do something quietly in your own room/private space devoid of noise/distraction.

13. Wake up to your family

There's nothing like quality time with the fam when you come home from college. Sure, when you'd originally set off for college, you thought you'd never wish for more family time, but now that you've missed it for so long, you love it!


Somehow Doing It All Over Again 4 Days from Now for Winter Vacation,

ARW

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