Do You View Travel Differently Now?

To each their own…. For me, the amount of new sights, sounds, people, landscape plus the thrill of adventure make travel worthwhile. Covid has put a damper on it and has forced me to stay home. I have been to places nearby that I have not been to before near home but it was not the same. It was like.. same old, same old. You can’t radically change the scenery or have the thrill of meeting others so different from yourself. There are those who do not enjoy being “out of their comfort zone”. For me, that is what makes life worth living and interesting.

Okay---Read this, and wise up. What you do is visit places like Birobidzhan and Cambridge Bay for a week or two. NOT Can coon or Accapella or some warm, sunny place like that, during winter. But yeah---when you return from Cambridge Bay or Barrow, Ak.(for example), you'll appreciate how balmy and mild the winter weather is in KC, by comparison. See? Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.,

Okay---one iof my case studies has a case of yuppie-itis, having earned a valuable degree in mid-life. She came from a modest, but not impoverished background. But anyway, she's awarded herself a prestige car, many many restaurant meals, and vacation trips in the USA. But now---for no good reason, she has taken her daughter and two male companions on a trip to Africa. After spending 28 hours sitting on airliners and in airports and multiple landings, they've reached their destination. They find themselves cloistered in their hotel, due to security concerns and illness. Yup. Sound like fun, to you? Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee. But yeah---read this.Attachment 5046

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Okay---one iof my case studies has a case of yuppie-itis, having earned a valuable degree in mid-life. She came from a modest, but not impoverished background. But anyway, she's awarded herself a prestige car, many many restaurant meals, and vacation trips in the USA. But now---for no good reason, she has taken her daughter and two male companions on a trip to Africa. After spending 28 hours sitting on airliners and in airports and multiple landings, they've reached their destination. They find themselves cloistered in their hotel, due to security concerns and illness. Yup. Sound like fun, to you? Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee. But yeah---read this.Attachment 5046

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Okay---This just in. My case subjects were escorted over to a park that has wildlife native to Afffrika, as exhibits. You can actually SEE a real, life Giraffe eating lunch, from several hundred feet away!(see above photo) OMG, OMG,OMG. Ha. Thing is, I can bike 2 1/2 miles to the local zoo, pay $5 or so, and observe giraffes eating lunch, up close and personal. like--an arms length away. O' course, they have a glass partition, to keep local idiots from doing something stooopid, then trying to get a big sedddelmint outta the city zoo. But yeah---No need to sit on a plane to see girafffes. Nope. Thankk mee.

It is awesome to see animals in their natural habitat, whereas, seeing them prisoners in a zoo is pathetic.

SO and I would like to visit Bogota. Given that I making better money now, this seems doable. One huge hindrance? The chaos in the airlines industry now. And it's not just US carriers that suck - these issues are worldwide. Former highly esteemed airlines such as Emirates, EVA, and Cathay Pacific are all train wrecks now with mountains of lost luggage and frequent cancellations with no real customer service.

We will until such a day as the airline industry is saner and more stable. Rob