Travel time seems to be longer.

Already as a kid I felt that going somewhere the travel distance is way longer as going back home. Fact is this is true in most cases so it's not just about the feeling. Might be we have more time if we leave and are in a bigger rush to get back home? But if it comes to travelling generally speaking it all takes way more time as told. Airplanes are a good example of it, so is train or bus. They never mention all the time you are waiting, have to be there before departure etc etc.

i'm used to traveling on edsa so when i need to go somewhere along quezon ave to espana and taft, i am always looking out the window, afraid i'd miss my stop. i did travel that route as a student so it's familiar. i just feel a little rusty, and of course, the landmarks and infrastructure have changed a lot. i have a poor sense of direction so i like straight routes that have very little left and right turns. my parent's hometown is 14 hours by bus and growing up, we always leave in the afternoon and get there early morning. the first half of the first day is really wasted because we'd eat, unpack then catch up on sleep. then when i started working, i had an officemate whose hometown is also in the same region. we left at 7am and i was so surprised we were at her house by 5pm. because it was a day trip, i really enjoyed watching the scenery and people and didn't feel as tired even though the journey was only shorter by 10 hours.

I do agree with you. Going to a new place seems to be longer than going back. Perhaps it is because while heading there, we are not familiar yet and everything seems new. While going back is at ease already knowing that we are just re trying the steps and we have exactly an idea where we are going already.

I just love this topic. Most of us here felt the same. The journey going seems longer that the journey back. Is it psychological, illusion or facts? Yes, we are excited about our holiday destination, anxious makes us feel longer.. something like waiting for our love one seems so long. right? On the way back, we are tired and tend to sleep or more relax, so the journey seems shorter, I guessed!

Yes I also feel like this specially while going on my mothers house feel oohhh God home many hours spend but still Nagpur is not came. Some time when I seat in train, train is late so feel ohhh I am sitting so it is late. Boring logic but apply logic.

You tend to get very excited on getting to your destination that you'll find the ride very long. On your way back home you'll be so tired and a few hours rest while waiting to get there seems to be not enough. That's just how I see it. :)

During the getting there journey the person feels excited about reaching his or her destination. The time getting there seems to go rather longer than it does going back home. The reason is the person is thinking of being back at home on the homeward journey. On a long haul flight he or she might sleep a few hours away. I find a long haul flight uncomfortable and in the last three years I have been on some of these. It was from London to Vancouver in 2010. Then it was London to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in 2011. This year it was London to Argentina's capital city. Jet lag can happen going through many time zones so this would add to the tiredness. In 2009 I went from London to Cape Town. I felt great due to a minimal time difference. In 2011 I had a wonder of what South America would be like traveling on a South American airline because the Spanish airline had let me down with a delay and missed connection. The trip out to Colombia seemed to take ages compared to the flight back home.

Funny that you mention this because I notice this too. Maybe this is simply psychological since we are eager to go back home that the travel seems shorter. Well, there's no place like home

Going home is faster because you dont want the vacation to end, something we enjoy makes time feels fast while something that bores as felts like forever. Going to a place for the first time feels slower cos you are trying to view things you had never seen before, you are analizing your environment as you seat inside the car and looking outside the windows. Youa re looking at an unfamiliar environment.

Oh, yes! This is really true and I myself is also asking why we felt this way on our first travel on the place. Like now, I am assigned in a place farther than my previous assignment. During my first travel to the place, I really felt that my travel time seems like it has no end anymore. But now after two weeks of going to and back, I feel that my travel is not as long as the first time. I think it has something to do with not being familiar with the place, so I am thinking too much about the travel.

I am living here in the city and my hometown is in the very distant province.It takes 10 to 14 hours to travel depending on the bus.I am always going home.I think three to four times a year.And every time I am travelling, I am getting bored for it seems our house was very very distant. Like you have said. They said its because of the excitement so I felt like that and I agree to that. When I got back here in the city and traveled again, I did not have any excitement at all and so I just wasted my time in sleeping overnight and in a day.