It might seem weird to share this article on a travel forum, but I know reading it only affirms my interest.
What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts?
The single most important fact about tourism is this: we already know what we will be like when we return. A vacation is not like immigrating to a foreign country, or matriculating at a university, or starting a new job, or falling in love. We embark on those pursuits with the trepidation of one who enters a tunnel not knowing who she will be when she walks out. The traveller departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs, and living arrangements. Travel is a boomerang. It drops you right where you started.
The Case Against Travel
It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
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