groups

I do not think that World Travelers are a bore. I find them very interesting like watching a show on the Travel Channel. I am very content to watch and listen right now. I am not a traveler myself. I find it too stressful nowadays.

I am not overly fond of the process of travel....but I wish that I could do more of it. People who have traveled the world are more enlightened have a broader spectrum of knowlege. Less judgemental of others and interesting people. I love to hear the truth about other countries from those who have been there rather than opinions of those less traveled who judge without knowing.

I am always interested in a new perspective on other lands. I think most people have something to add to my understanding of a place. I was talking today with a guy who was stationed in Israel and I believe in Jerusalem. His perspective on the conflict there is different and interesting.

I can tune out the self serving boors and bores quite well thank you.

I think it's the most enlightening, self rewarding vocation one can aspire to. Snobbery is a term used lance the enlighten.

I love to travel! I would love to see most of the world - it opens your eyes. I try not to be one of those who bore you to death with all the details of their trips. I do love to hear about people's travels, as long as they leave out the unnecessary details which don't add to the stories.

There is some stress involved in travelling, but I just don't understand people who say they have no desire to travel (not just because of lack of money) - they are quite happy to stay safely at home.

annie

I love to travel, but I have only been half way around the world and then back. So maybe that is why I am only half boring?

One of my great joys in this life has been living in different cultures and absorbing their influences. This doesn't happen in a two week motorcoach ride through Central Europe listening to the tour guide.

I've had great experiences as a resident in several foreign countries. I count the time as critical in my understanding of the forces in the modern world and our possible role and place in this world. I wish more of us would have or make such opportunities. The US looks far different from the outside than it does from the inside.

If travel is simply a means to check the boxes off (it's Tuesday; that must be the Taj Mahal up ahead) it is less useful. Either way it should serve more as self improvement than entertainment for others. Looking at travel pictures that are carefully edited and presented is a real gift, but most never get into that form.

Now I’m really going to have to watch the Travel Channel more.

<< The US looks far different from the outside than it does from the inside.>>

That is so very true. I learned that quickly when I moved to the UK.

Touring by coach from tourist shop to tourist shop gives a false impression of a country. You can tour all over Europe and still go back home with the impression of it all being just like fairytales.

Actually this is one of those yes'es and no'es type of thing.

It isn't the travel or the places one finds oneself in, its the who you are and why your traveling that makes all the difference in the experience and then the retelling.

A bore in the rec room is probably a boor, if not boorish, be it on the Eiffel Tower, at the pyramids in Giza, in the Taj Mahal, or at the Statue of Liberty. No, it usually the person not the place.

Once in England when a son or daughter of a certain class reached at certain point in their lives without any prospects, would be sent on a Grand Tour of Europe in order to broaden their experiences and been seen in the right places and so that, when they return they could upgrade status by having been and met the right people in the right places. Maybe that's is the type of snobbery being alluded to in the post.

As to the value of travel, it can be life changing or it can be a serious waste of time and resources. In my case it has been neither, but then the circumstances of most of my weren't necessarily of my making.