Can someone explain the actual "joy" of traveling? I can't understand why this would be enjoyable.

Can someone explain the actual "joy" of traveling?

I can't understand why this would be enjoyable. You go to a foreign place where you don't know anyone, have to sleep in a bed that isn't yours, or God forbid some shitty hostel. You have to figure out how the transport works, how to get food in a new place, and then how to entertain yourself basically. It's just seems like a needless challenge.

Is it to like "tick" destinations off a list? To take photos for Instagram? To be able to tell people you've been somewhere and are oh so adventurous?

I just really can't see the appeal. And I've been overseas before, probably to like 10 or 12 countries. I never really enjoyed it. I'd prefer to be home with my hobbies at my house. Where I can cook in my own kitchen and sleep in my own bed.

Just not really getting the appeal. Are travellers masochist?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the only thing what I can explain is that you are a homosexual

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Let me guess.. American?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine you're zero years old. You know nothing, and when you do learn something, it's never a complete truth; it's always marred by some kind of location or cultural bias. It took you probably more than a decade to learn how to use public transit or drive, so you're functionally immobile until then.
    Imagine you're 20 years old, going to another country. You already know how to do all the boring shit - booking hotels and transit, packing, whatever. So you get to focus your time there on relearning everything you've ever known, because people over there have a completely different notion of what life's like. This can be done in less than a year depending on how extroverted you are, plus you get to enjoy the different physical landscape.
    It's like being reincarnated, except better since you don't have to go through 18 disgusting years of childhood again.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Where should I travel if want to (re)learn all those things correctly the first time? What is the destination that has the most upto date and most accurate information? I will go there instead so I don't have to go anywhere else or worse some shitplace that only wants to decieve me and teach me lies.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don’t take pictures. I read history books about every single country I go to. I just want to learn new things and see them myself. I love learning, and I love getting cognitively lost. Like a mental reset. This post gets it.
      I have been doing it since I was a kid thanks to my dad who himself never stopped from the 60s.
      Fondest memory was when I stayed for 3 weeks in Paraguay when I was 12, spent about 10 days with a guarani family and we played futbol in the streets with local streets every day, then we went to a gaucho camp and we spent days herding the cows on our horses. When I came back to my European country, nobody understood what did I go through. They learn about “poverty” in books but I got to interact with it, see it for myself. And sometimes it’s not as miserable as it seems.
      I say this because this is what typically unfricked my little self when I was a kid. The world is not just one boring place where everbody is more or less the same. There are countless of stories to hear and tell.
      I haven’t traveled for almost 2 months now and it’s been itching me. I should go next month, renting a car and do my own roadtrip, like always, and just randomly wander.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can explain the joy of travelling to you no more than you can explain the joy of staying at home to me. I hate being at home, not experiencing new things and socializing. I quickly get depressed and beat down by staying in one place. The only times I've been happy at home are when I've been super-motivated and stimulated at work while juggling hobbies and planning some trip in the future.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Probably the best answer ITT. Everyone is different. Some people are creatures of comfort and some aren't.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Your insanely reductionist approach is moronic.

    It's quite simple - different places offer different things. You can't experience Alps anywhere but in Alps. And even then Italian Alps and Austrian Alps are quite different. In Spain you can eat different foods from your home. Even if you have one Spanish restaurant in your town, it can't possibly recreate the entire depth of any given cuisine. Some cities have better partying spots. It's much easier having a great time in Valencia than Helsinki. There's so many reasons why some people. And yes, it's mostly to look at pretty things.

    For me I hate being in one place at a time. My happiest life period was when I was constantly hitchhiking, had very little money and I wouldn't know where I'd sleep that night or if I'd sleep at all.

    Some people genuinely prefer the things they already know, travelling isn't for everyone.

    There's also degrees of extremity to it.

    >boring holiday types, short term
    >includes resorts, just visiting only major touristic attractions, not really interacting with the actual place in any meaningful way
    >then more in depth travel, still short term, but steps out more of the boring stuff
    >then people who travel all the time and actually actively plan to it beyond the basic "I'm taking my vacation in Canaries"/"I'm going to skii in Alps for 4 days"
    >these usually still live in their home country
    >then you get people who are actively expats and rarely really settle anywhere, but still work from home or have some sort of business
    >so mostly living abroad, but still travelling a lot
    >then you get people who pretty much don't work and just travel, usually includes "tru traveller" types who are functionally homeless and will live very modestly just to travel for months on their savings
    >then you have more insane types like actual adventurers, sort of people to go to middle of Amazon to explore temples of frick knows what

    not very strict scale, but its how i think of stuff roughly

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know much anybody in my own town the way it is.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's not for everyone, but it's interpreted as a status symbol for normies. Vast majority of people would prefer to be in a 5 star resort over actually doing anything else. They subject themselves to things they don't particularly enjoy for the status symbol.

    Personally, I grew up reading adventure novels and stuff, so my brain is rotten. But yeah, I'd prefer it if the travel bubble were popped and people just focused on the type of travel they enjoy, instead of just making beautiful areas turn to shit by catering to the masses.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People who travel are almost all from globohomosexual shitholes, usa, UK Germany etc. They travel to get away from their repressive governments.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ". I'd prefer to be home with my hobbies at my house. Where I can cook in my own kitchen and sleep in my own bed. "
    And what do you feel when you cook something new? It's that exact same feeling going somehwere new. If you don't feel that way then you just dont feel it.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Explain to me how to like something I don't
    It's impossible. If you've travelled and you don't enjoy it, it's simply not for you, no need to force it, or for anyone to justify or explain. Your only hope is that perhaps your tastes change as you age and at some point you get interested in it, other foods, people, places - sights & sounds that are completely different than what you'd see at home.

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