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Well, i beg to differ. And i'm older than that. In my view, we have a very limited time to live, and experiencing the amazing planet we're on in all its variety is one of the best things one can do.



You're just scratching the surface of said amazing planet, you're not experiencing anything of value that you couldn't have experienced back home. There's a real good essay on the emptiness of tourism written by Siegfried Kracauer back in the 1930s, just as mass tourism was beginning to take off, Travel and Dance [1] is called, it is still highly relevant almost 100 years later.

[1] English version from a spammy website here: https://www.academia.edu/25240089/Siegfried_Kracauer_Travel_... , Spanish version from a real website here: https://antroposmoderno.com/antro-version-imprimir.php?id_ar...


> you're not experiencing anything of value that you couldn't have experienced back home

That's an incredibly arrogant view of the world and doesn't match my experience. But you need time.

In particular when you experience the world by sailboat, you get a glimpse of its true size.


I agree with both of you. I've felt both ways on the subject and have been extremely lucky while traveling but also have witnessed the hollowness.


I see we still haven't stopped telling other people what they're supposed to enjoy or not.




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