> By 9 months [traveling], I'm pretty much ready to commit to a real job in a real office just so that I can start using my brain again. I use my brain intensi

> By 9 months [traveling], I'm pretty much ready to commit to a real job in a real office just so that I can start using my brain again. I use my brain intensively while traveling. Lot's of brain functions are running at full throttle: cognition, language, problem solving, spacial, to name a few. I don't understand how can the OP feel that he's not using his brain while roaming the planet, specially developing countries where your day-to-day "templates" tend to apply the least.