Dealing with rough patches

Been traveling full time for over a year now but the last month has been pretty rough. Been having the worst luck here in Indonesia - cliffs notes version: 5 days after coming to Bali was walking on the beach minding my own business when a dog grabbed my hand randomly and put teeth marks requiring me to get rabies shots and throwing all my plans haywire. Then I was in Gili T and my cruise that I had booked from there to Lombok was cancelled on the morning of the departure due to a busted engine. Left me scramming to make alternate plans which was really stressful. Then in Komodo when getting back an hour before my flight the volcano on Flores island decided to blow it's top raining ash down completely shutting down the airport and cancelling all flights. Again left me scramming to make alternate plans, I was stuck on Flores for 2 days as airlines were price gouging when the airport reopened. Had 14 months of relatively trouble free travel and then a whole month with a string of things going wrong. This whole episode has been really stressful to deal with but I am guessing this is part of long term travel. How often do you guys run into patches like this and how do you mentally deal with these kinds of stressors while traveling? I was talking to another long term traveler on my bus to Java and he said he is mentally prepared for at least X number of things to go wrong in a year of traveling and a fund to cover some losses due to plans being messed up. --- **Post Details:** - **Subreddit:** r/digitalnomad - **Author:** u/johnny4111 - **Score:** 24 upvotes - **Upvote Ratio:** 90.0% - **Comments:** 16 - **Posted:** 7/10/2025 - **URL:** https://reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/1lwblfu/dealing_with_rough_patches/