Stop trying to have the perfect vacation
- Jerry Atrick
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Back when I first started traveling there were no printed books, no modern day Europe or Asia and I learned my paths from a fellow named Marco Polo I met in Venice
- Chuck Borris
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Never understood people traveling around the world. with pocket change. If I don't have enough money for comfortable room, good food and entertainment evening I rather stay home. I'm saving money at home for traveling, not on traveling for home.
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I couldn't agree more with you Chuck Borris.Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 5:46 pm Never understood people traveling around the world. with pocket change. If I don't have enough money for comfortable room, good food and entertainment evening I rather stay home. I'm saving money at home for traveling, not on traveling for home.
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- MarkArmstrong
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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:38 am when i fist started travelling, there was no internet, no google, no google maps,
there was Europe on $5 ( can you imagine you could do Europe on $5!!)
than the yellow bible
came out the year before i did Amsterdam to Bangkok
But basically travelling was asking other travelers coming from where your heading, all the questions the internet now answers
NOW there is to much out there and it spoils the trip when all your doing is going where everyone has gone before AND posting a selfie
you tube ( follow me)
twitter, Tik Tok, Instagram
https://www.vox.com/culture/23798890/am ... timizationIt’s sort of a cliché to remark that Americans make bad tourists, but on the other hand, it’s hard to argue with the evidence. In the past week, two videos of American tourists complaining about Europe have gone viral: In one, a traveler says that Paris “smells like piss, cheese, and armpit” and that its food “looks grimy as hell,” and in the other, a woman argues that any influencer who posted pretty photos of the Amalfi Coast “deserves jail time” because they neglected to mention the logistics of actually getting there. “This is literal manual labor not vacation,” she writes in the caption. I’m not going to add to the chorus of Twitter users sending death threats to these two, because in a sense, they’ve both got points: If you go to Europe just because it looks cute on TikTok and Instagram, you’re going to end up disappointed.
Is travel cringe? It certainly feels that way, particularly if you’re traveling to one of the destinations that have become symbols of internet-driven over-tourism — Tulum, Lisbon, Reykjavik, Mexico City, Santorini, Dubrovnik, to name a few from the past decade. These are cities boasting both extraordinary natural beauty and, crucially, governments and corporations eager to profit from tourism. In catering to Western tastes, developers and the dollars they seek aren’t only killing the existing culture, they’re also, ironically, killing what makes people want to visit a place. In the latest edition of his Barcelona guide, the legendary travel author Rick Steves writes a eulogy for the Ramblas, a thriving market for locals that’s since become a tourist trap selling souvenirs and Instagram-ready fruit skewers.
Love that kind of thing it reminds me of my trucking days kuwait, saudi and others. To be adaptable is not relying on skyscanner to book your next flight.
Mark
Re: Stop trying to have the perfect vacation
A simple inflation calculator sheds a little more light on this thread.
1962: $5 --> 2023: $50.51
You could pop onto one of the many Facebook backpacking groups and ask if $50 per day is a reasonable amount to travel on if you were on a tight budget.
1962: $5 --> 2023: $50.51
You could pop onto one of the many Facebook backpacking groups and ask if $50 per day is a reasonable amount to travel on if you were on a tight budget.
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The first time I came to Cambodia there were no current guide books, there was just a small section in the Lonely Planet SE Asia guide that advised not going anywhere outside Siem Reap or Phnom Penh. I remember buying a particularly useless Forbes guide in Bangkok that had fuck all in it other than 5 star hotel garbage.
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Current Forbes comments on Cambodia
Nightly rates start at $193, inclusive of breakfast, laundry, daily mini-bar, a massage and tuk-tuk transfer to Angkor Wat. It's Disneyworld.
Nightly rates start at $193, inclusive of breakfast, laundry, daily mini-bar, a massage and tuk-tuk transfer to Angkor Wat. It's Disneyworld.
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Tell us more of your war stories from your days in kep ricky
sumfin smart
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I don't understand? In fact I don't think anyone does.DeparRudeAnts wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:03 am Tell us more of your war stories from your days in kep ricky
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Wait for it...MarkArmstrong wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:58 amI don't understand? In fact I don't think anyone does.DeparRudeAnts wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:03 am Tell us more of your war stories from your days in kep ricky
sumfin smart
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