sometimes I think maybe I regret not having travelled, that my life circumstances were such that suddenly, I was 42 and had never had the experience of just heading out and wandering, going wherever as a single person for some period of time, you know maybe a summer or something. I think I really missed out and I think that is something that would have suited me a lot. Is it too late? Yeah, sometimes and for some things, it is.
Of course I can still travel, but it won't be the same. Maybe someday I need to just sort of... disappear...
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6 dirty hippies blowing your mind:
travel is expensive. VERY expensive.
travel when you are a kid meant having to go on the cheap. i have slept in more buggy campsites, leaky tents, decrepid hostels, and uncomfortable back seats than i ever care to remember. did i see lots of stuff? sure. but on a hair-thin budget, watching every pennny, and racking up the Visa bill to haunt me for months to come.
travel as an adult means you stay in nice hotels and resorts, eat at delicious if pricey restaurants, and travel like a civilized person. it's FAR nicer. i would not trade it and go back, even if the wild and reckless call of the unknown road *has* become the dainty breakfast bell of the B&B and a well planned CAA triptych!
I still can't afford nice hotels and resorts (I don't like the all-inclusive resort experience anyway, I'm not a team player, don't want to limbo with the other tourists or romp around with a Club Med "Fun Facilitator" or whatever the hell they call those freaks.) I don't have any credit cards either, so no worries there.
It's funny, but every year I drive out east and I LOVE road trips. I could and can sit in the car for hour after hour after hour without complaint. I always buy and make my own food and go out only for very specific meals (have to have lobster out there!)
I guess some of us prefer hotels and some prefer a rougher experience. I don't like the idea of spending big money on a room, regardless of amenities. I LOVE camping and don't care about the bugs, rain, lack of shower etc. I kind of like the idea of getting a bit grimy on the journey!!
And, I still want to do a route 66 road trip. It's a must for me. I hope by the time I actually do it, the tacky wigwam hotels and various other relics of a former time still exist. I know some have disappeared already.
i dunno, i think some people get to a certain point in life where comfort is part of the experience. i suppose some would use the word luxury instead, but i haven't got there (ha, yet). i don't personally want to travel and have to sleep on some shitty bed in some dank room just because i can't afford better. i'd rather travel less, but get more out of it. for me, the accomodations and dining have become part of the overall experience. maybe i am spoiled, my mother and i and jan and i have traveled pretty upscale in recent years and you get used to a certain standard. i figure, we work hard for our 1 or 2 vacations a year and deserve to do them right. i road-tripped and camped and sofa-surfed when i was younger, i'm done with it. give me a decent hotel with a pool, air-conditioning, and a nice restaurant and you will see me smiling.
perhaps, haven't not much travelled much in your youth, the thrill of simply being on the road and getting out of town to go somewhere is still enough of a spark for you. i envy you that, in a way. i can't be arses to travel if it isn't going to be at least comparable to the quality of my home life, if not a bit nicer. the rougher experience ... in my youth, darlin', in my youth.
i'll still always love camping, tho. i just prefer to actually go to the wilderness rather than some campsite where your car is nearby. you really gotta try camping Algonquin or the Adirondacks ... both within a day's drive and a whole other experience!!
btw, don't mistake "resort" just to mean Club Med or an all-inclusive. it also applies to the many beautiful lodges all across the muskokas and the kawarthas!
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sleep in dirty beds or on someone's couch either...but I don't want to spend hundreds a night just to be in a fancy room. There are decent places to be had on a budget!
I don't know if I'm much of a lodge person, beautiful though they seem to be. I'd rather be in a little log house in the woods with a woodstove and some blankets, suit me a-ok!
I guess what it is then is that I'm not much of a "hotel as part of the experience" person.
you and D. should look into this guy who has 250 acres of land in the Adirondacks. he has 5 or 6 camps where you rent a cabin ... no electricty, no heat or A\C, no running water. you park your car and he drives you in and drops you off. he promotes it as "living like pioneers" and it certainly looks that way.
i think you can stay nice and stay on budget. jan and i are at 3 seperate accomodations book-ended around the cottage we rented this summer, and i got us some very very nice hotels for under 200 bucks a night which is totally do-able.
i am definitely a hotel-as-part-of-the-experience person. i need to have good bedding and linens, a comfortable bed, and climate control! amen!!
that sounds pretty cool actually!
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