I am 30+, and I had never left my country before, so I thought that would be a nice and almost mandatory experience. Especially from someone who invested a lot of time reading about different countries.
I am in the fourth country of my schedule and I realized that travelling might be overrated. Or it is just not for me. Or I shouldn't be doing this alone, idk. I invested lot of money in this trip and, to this point, I don't think it was worth it.
I see historical buildings and think "ok, cool". Then I take a picture and it's invariably worse than any picture I find in Google. Then I pay to enter museums and they all start looking similar after a while. I eat local food and it's never tasty as the one back home. I talk to locals and I rarely learn more than I already knew from the internet. It is almost like I've already been to those places before, so much I read in advance. Also, everything ends up being more expensive because my currency sucks and the conversion fees only make things worse.
It was better when I "traveled" sitting in front of my computer. It was cheaper, cozier and had much less pressure involved.
Wow. How is it possible to travel and even FAIL at it?
Noah Perry
you are not wrong
almost all people who go on vacations, do it for 2 reasons. To go to the beach, or to go to a ski resort.
If you are American you can do both in your country, you can go to Miami or Aspen for that, and if you want slightly better beaches, you can go to a tourist resort in Cancun, Cuba, Dominican Republic etc. That is the normal tourism of people who go on vacations every year, not taking pictures of buildings.
Doing museums, historical buildings and ruins tourism is good, but something you dont need to do more than once in your life. Just to be able to say I saw the Pyramids/Versailles/The Colosseum. But I font think you gain a lot by seeing them a fourth time.
Spain and Greece have beach cities which are like British colonies in which all people are British and speak English, Spain also has German beach colonies. Similarly there are many places in the caribbean that will be full of American tourists.
Easton Bell
At least you are now literally more well-travelled than 95% of all Americans. You're practically a worldly man now and get to look down on everyone else whenever they talk about foreign issues
Take a look at that wiki site and see if any of it tickles your dick. There's nothing wrong with spending a day at a museum or seeing the major sites, but it does get old fast and imo you need to actually make some unique memories that you cant get on Google street view.
Pic unrelated.
Liam Fisher
>Europeans can drive 100 miles and be in another country >Canadians have to drive 200 miles to go shopping
If you actually stop to think about it it's pretty obvious why europeans statisticaly travel outside thier country more often.
Ryan White
Holy fuck that's depressing. Maybe try again with friends or something
Cooper Jackson
Going to a different European country is barely considered going "abroad" though
A lot of Swedes ages 18-25 will already have travelled to every continent and been to more US states than most Americans have
We even went to USA on a school trip once...
How do you explain that away?
Cameron Allen
>I shouldn't be doing this alone Go with somebody travelling alone is always miserable for me. Fuckin hell me and my younger sister have trip to Japan planned for when I graduate and get a real job.
