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And people shouldnt get ripped off at national parks. I heard Yosemite is 30 $..
They're all $30. It's a $5 increase. The price hasn't gone up that much in the last 15 years.
An unpopular travel opinion I have is that I don't visit only tourist places or travel just to see family. Nor do I have a reason for going somewhere other than wanting to see it. I constantly get asked "Why you going to ----.", or "What are you going to ----for?", or "What's in----." I just want to throat punch people when they say that. I know it's making conversation but it sounds so close minded.
My unpopular travel opinion: travel does not make a person more educated or cultured. It just makes them more traveled.
It can make people more educated and cultured, but I think it depends on how you travel. If you're just staying at five star resorts stuffing your face with fancy food and drinking gallons of wine and don't actually see much outside of the resort, you're not truly experiencing the destination.
It can make people more educated and cultured, but I think it depends on how you travel. If you're just staying at five star resorts stuffing your face with fancy food and drinking gallons of wine and don't actually see much outside of the resort, you're not truly experiencing the destination.
Experiencing the way locals live when you go to some sort of third world country is actually quite depressing and potentially detrimental to your health, lol.
Traveling generally sucks - it's all about using up barrels of oil and then claiming how you've found a great and clean place. Meanwhile, the world heats up and people die of respiratory illnesses.
It's a simple formula. What if everyone in the world went everywhere in the world? We're only about 1/10th of the way there and it sux already.
People wax poetic about Italy. I'm of Italian ancestry. There is a reason that so many Italians left the place....but they turned it into a tourist trap and now people really think they are going somewhere authentic.
The best thing you can do for the world is to stay close to home.
I'm sure that is very unpopular because people don't want to realize they are using many times their weight in fossil fuels to visit somewhere. But then they recycle a plastic water bottle that was flown from Fiji and pat themselves on the back for their sustainability.
Italy turned itself as a whole country into a humongous tourist trap.
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I have a friend who has to travel to boring places like factories in the Midwest for work. He doesn't consider it a perk.
Not surprisingly, he isn't more cultured than before.
He should consider hanging around for harvest / barn raisings / parades / Ice Cream socials / school fund raisers / or other community events. He would definitely become 'cultured' and educated.
There are reasons people live in 'fly-over' country. I find it a informational and enlightening to ask why!
Most of my coworkers hang around the hotel and eat at chain feeding troughs. (they complain a lot, and can't wait to 'retreat' home to their 'safe-place'... the ultimate in insecurity...)
I stay on farms and assist with milking and chores (and am still ready to be at work at 8AM). I find it very interesting. (and cultured).
This another unpopular opinion... people are often more important to understand than the places (while traveling)
50+ yrs of doing this, no ill affects, yet... Maybe tomorrow
I'll take my chances and enjoy the new people I meet everyday. (Rather then the same ole hotel walls / staff / clientele... rushing to flee back to my home. )
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