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  • (Score: 2) by ese002 on Saturday January 03, @01:51AM (11 children)

    by ese002 (5306) on Saturday January 03, @01:51AM (#1428541)

    I never understood the travel fetish because I moved a modest distance away for uni and also traveled the country for the Army, and as part of that I'd get to visit offbase or enroute quite a bit, got to travel for work all over. I've seen a lot of the USA, urban and rural, sat in a lot of little bars, wandered a lot of streets.

    It's fun to see something new but I don't get the fetish that its "mind expanding" to talk to people in a different timezone or where its slightly warmer or colder.

    You didn't travel far enough or go anywhere different enough. Leave the USA. See Africa, India, and Thailand. Don't confined yourself to Americanised hotels either. Eat and sleep where the locals do. Talk to the locals. Even if you don't speak the local language, many people the world over speak English and can show you perspectives you may not have considered or even known were possible.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday January 03, @02:54PM (9 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 03, @02:54PM (#1428576)

    LOL it doesn't work so you need to do it more, and the most important part is it has to be performative and expensive. Naaah.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04, @09:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04, @09:59PM (#1428763)

      Let's try it this way, what are experiences you do enjoy or that you find provide for the possibility of personal growth, new cultural experiences, and retrospective life satisfaction?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04, @11:20PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04, @11:20PM (#1428772)

      You gotta have an open mind for it to work.

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