"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these”. Mark Twain
I believe that it is therapeutic for us all to experience the stress of a travel in a country where you don’t speak the language….just a slice of the immigrant experience.
There are three phases to a trip.
1. Planning the experience
2. The experience
3. The memories good and bad from the trip.
Some of our most hilarious family gatherings have centered around remembering the things that went sideways on family vacations. Emptying the septic tank of our RV rental comes to mind.😂
Best advice: go with low expectations and you will ever be disappointed.
I've largely not found that with the travel/tourism thing, and I hate to position myself as an outlier from the norm.
I traveled to Finland 20 years ago (to do a thing I live - go to a music festival) and noticed an incredulity among Finns when I didn't have earplugs. I've worn them ever since.
I went to Paris and stumbled into a night of art across the city and it opened my eyes to what art could be. Not the Mona Lisa/Louvre, admittedly, but I've sought out that kind of art since.
And I always look forward to seeing how other cities are constructed in a way we cannot do remotely, so that I can return and appreciate my home in a new, different way.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these”. Mark Twain
I believe that it is therapeutic for us all to experience the stress of a travel in a country where you don’t speak the language….just a slice of the immigrant experience.
There are three phases to a trip.
1. Planning the experience
2. The experience
3. The memories good and bad from the trip.
Some of our most hilarious family gatherings have centered around remembering the things that went sideways on family vacations. Emptying the septic tank of our RV rental comes to mind.😂
Best advice: go with low expectations and you will ever be disappointed.
I've largely not found that with the travel/tourism thing, and I hate to position myself as an outlier from the norm.
I traveled to Finland 20 years ago (to do a thing I live - go to a music festival) and noticed an incredulity among Finns when I didn't have earplugs. I've worn them ever since.
I went to Paris and stumbled into a night of art across the city and it opened my eyes to what art could be. Not the Mona Lisa/Louvre, admittedly, but I've sought out that kind of art since.
And I always look forward to seeing how other cities are constructed in a way we cannot do remotely, so that I can return and appreciate my home in a new, different way.
Anyway.