Today, a blogger who was traveling with his wife and toddler around SE Asia announced he quit traveling . He moved back to the states and got settled in Indiana. Another writer that I follow left his expat life in Japan to “travel around the world” only to decide within a month that as much as he liked living abroad, he found the travel part to be lacking. These two events happening so close to each other made me start thinking: is the romance of the round-the-world trip actually burning people out on travel? While these two people weren’t traveling as quickly as most, I’m beginning to think the entire premise of a RTW trip is flawed. It’s as if we’ve collectively decided that if you’re going to travel, then you must cram as much actual traveling into that time as possible. Lest you miss something. But what do we get in exchange for non-stop travel? Higher costs : getting an apartment, cooking for yourself and not paying to take a plane, bus or train are much cheaper. Superficial experiences : we only meet other travelers, we only see the most popular sites, and we don’t have the time to understand the culture.

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