Frugal, I totally agree with you. I took my first international trip in 1998 and still have all the great memories. Much better than physical items.
Frugal, I totally agree with you. I took my first international trip in 1998 and still have all the great memories. Much better than physical items.
If I could travel by teleportation and stay at a given destination for weeks, I might agree with you.Originally Posted by frugal-one
I generally hate the "travel" part of travel, but rather enjoy the "staying someplace new for a reasonable period", so I tend to just find a fun place to stay in some random foreign city, and stay for at least 2-4 weeks, to make the "travel" part less painful, overall. Ideally then I take a train to some other random city, and repeat the process.
I think it's really a matter of personal preference, and there are worthwhile experiences other than travel. An acquaintance took a couple of rounds of pottery classes, largely because our FB posts made it look so fun. She enjoyed the classes, but decided to discontinue at least in part because it was a bit pricey. She said she really likes to shop, and I know she is currently on a trip to Italy. I think the pottery classes are a better choice for us because we are learning, developing skills and getting enjoyment from them every single week. However, I don't necessarily think this translates universally (i.e., everyone must take pottery classes in order to live a happy life!) or think her choices are wrong because they are different from mine.
I am definitely going through everything I own and evaluating if I still get pleasure from it. So if I have a universe of less things but more pleasure what each thing, that will be positive as it will downsize naturally. I will cut back naturally if I have less to take care of.
Some people hate traveling and don’t enjoy it so of course why would they do it. I don’t like the getting there part any longer either. I like to go for between 10-14 days and don’t like to be gone longer unless I take the dogs. I realized that when we took a 3 week trip.
My mom loved to travel and my dad not so much. He didn’t want to go to Europe because he had been there. What he always failed to mention was that it was during WW2. My mom went there without him. They did travel around the states.
I find airplane travel these days to be a form of torture so that part of travel is demeaning and not fun at all.
Pinkytoe, I feel the exact same way. We are doing more travel by car in the US now. Arkansas, Detroit, Kansas City and so on. Each has a Road Scholar trip arranged to see them.
i don't mind airline travel. I actually enjoy pretty much all aspects as I get a chance to people-watch and even have some interesting conversations with some of the people I meet.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
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