johnny lightning wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:10 pm "there's still plenty of adventures to be had". Sadly for those of us "back in the day" folks this no longer seem to be true. Most of us been there done that folks who have seen the glory days of SEA over the last 30-40 years are making due with a pale imitation of what was. I will never give up my appreciation of SEA or get rid of the yellow fever but it's really over. In case you are wondering I am only 59 and first hit SEA when I was 23 and never looked back. I have probably spent a total of 12 years of that time either living here or visiting too many times to count.

The good news for you is that you never knew what you missed so the current reality may be just as exciting and intoxicating as the old days were for us. Hope you enjoy the new world as much as we did the old.

Johnny

"back in the day" "glory days" LOL

I've been traveling since the mid 60's thru America and central America but not to Europe and eastwards till '72 and there are still LOTS of adventures left, even in asia; Burma, Tibet, Indonesia, part of India, ( enough of India that even after years of traveling, u'll only scratch the surface)
add in All of Africa Central & South America

There lots of people heading out in their own cars/campers across Europe an thru the stans to SE asia, thru Africa, Central & South american having the adventure of their lifetime, no different than i, you, we had in the 70's & 80's.

You can even go back thru the places you have been but travel differently, take boats, bicycle, trains instead of bus'/planes
if you think there's no more adventures left, i feel sorry for ya.

The only thing different from traveling now vs 30+ years ago, is 90% of people now know;
where they are going, how they are going there, when they will get there, where they will stay, what they will eat, what they will see, how much it will cost them
before all of these things were learned on the road